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What Can AI Tell Us about the Human Mind? with Joscha Bach

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Universe as a Machine and the Significance of Entropy

The concept of the universe being a machine, regardless of its exact nature, reveals that our purpose as living organisms is to outcompete natural chemical reactions by utilizing energy to build our own structures. However, this process is only temporary as we are unable to maintain efficiency permanently. The significance of entropy lies in the fact that it poses a threat to us, as we need separate dynamics from the underlying reversible dynamics of the universe to prevent drowning in entropy.

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