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AMA | April 2024

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

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Interdisciplinary Dependence on Math

Math is fundamental to physics, biology, and chemistry, yet the relationship between math and physics differs from that of physics and chemistry. The emergence relation is irreversible as it involves compressing information. Moving from physics to higher-order concepts involves discarding information, as demonstrated by Boltzmann's definition of entropy.

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