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AMA | March 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Is There a Reversibility Paradox?

Boltzmann: The chances that you will start in high entropy and spontaneously move down to lower entropy are exactly as big as the chances that you would have started randomly in the low entropy state to start with. Casey Mahone says, do you have any mindless or repetitive hobbies you use to help you relax? Boltzmann: Probably the closest I would come is just playing mindless repetitive games on the iPad for a few minutes before going to bed at night. Brendan asks if being an atheist comes down to the probability one gives in there being a god.

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