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In article <940@watserv1.waterloo.edu> ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies) writes:
   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.

This is an important point that gets little attention in many discussions.
In a larger context, Steven Hawking's (and many others') insistence to
categorically assign meanings to everything from the point of the observer
seems "natural", which is not to say scientific.  The concept of time-space
as known to man may have no meaning whatsoever to some gaseous-cloud-like
alien creatures with consciousness (whatever it means to have one) whose
censory devices cannot register the meaning of "unit" or "measurement" at all.
The negative entropy idea seems to take it for granted that the same type
of value references can remain in an entirely different time-spatial condition.
It's also not clear what he means by "entropy" here as he doesn't clarify
what he considers "entropy" or "negative-entropy".  Claude Shannon was
knowned to have said that he was urged to use the word "entropy" in his
information theory by Von Neuman who asserted that he should use it because
no one really knows what it means.

hwajin
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