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Lee Smolin - Think About Nature

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics

In the world of philosophy, what I'm doing is not new and not a surprise. How philosophers will react is unclear. Our issues that they've been talking about and discussing and debating and have positions about already for a century. Most things that we deal with in our everyday lives are irreversible. Let me mention another ramification of thinking about time being real as opposed to emergent or an illusion. The second law of thermodynamics is very well established on macroscopic scales clearly true. Disorder increases, entropy increases.

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