Janna Levin: belief

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…I mean, can you think of life as, because you said electrons. Is there some degree of information processing required? So it does something interesting “with information.” I think there are arguments like that, how entropy is changing from the beginning of the universe to today. How life lowers entropy by organizing things, but it costs more as a whole system, so the whole entropy of the whole system goes up. But of course, I organized things today and reduced the entropy of certain things in order to get up and get here. And even having this conversation, organizing thoughts out of the cloud of information, but it comes at the cost of the entire system increasing entropy. So I do think there’s probably a very interesting way to talk about life in this way. I’m sure somebody has. Yeah, it creates local pockets of low entropy and then the kind of mechanism, the kind of object, the kind of life form that could do that probably can take arbitrary forms. Now, if you could reduce it all to information now you could start to think about physics and then the realm of physics with the multiverse and all this kind of stuff, you could start to think about, okay, how do I detect those pockets of low entropy?…

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