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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is It Possible to Predict What to Expect?
If i don't have an external environment that pushes on me with some pattern forcing, then all i can really do is roll downhill and get kicked randaly back up hill. So it's just the classic trade off between low energy and high entropy. But if i now start pushing on the system with an external source of work, the way i should think about how this game changes is now it's like i've put skey lifts or escalators in this landscape. And there are particular configurations i can be in where the way they absorb energy from the environment is have an impact ant how much they can get lifted up some mountain side and dropped down the other. That's important because if you
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