Re: Entropy and the human brain

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From: $anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy St...
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 02:01

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In article <523@massey.ac.nz> ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes:
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>Would the human brain be capable of finding out that time is in fact
>flowing backwards?
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I don't think so. It appears that if you have negative entropy, you
cannot perceive the passage of time. Time may become meaningless
because you could remember the future as well as the past. There would
not appear to be any sort of cause and effect relationship possible,
that would show time flowing in one direction or another.

Again this is from OUR vantage point with our brains set up to
see time as we do now. It might be different entirely if our
minds were in a universe that had negative entropy.

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$anjay "lock-on" $ingh      ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu 

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From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies)
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Subject: Re: Entropy and the human brain
Keywords: negative entropy, brain structure
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Date: 2 Feb 90 02:01:34 GMT
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