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082 - John Boyd, Part 1: Destruction and Creation

General Intellect Unit

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Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

The second law of thermo dynamics was recently violated in physics. Time crystals were veloped by google, which actually violated the second law - but only in a local sense. The general law is that entropy tends to just increase m so teacups do spontaneously fall fall down and break. But they don't spontaneously reassemble themselves. That's related to ar the way we experience time as having this arrow that moves in the direction of entropy increasing. And it's also related to the degree of confusion or disorder.

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