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Scott Aaronson touches on this idea a bit during a discourse with Roger Penrose[1], commenting on the unification of entropy and information: "So on the pictur
by dmreedy 10y ago
Scott Aaronson touches on this idea a bit during a discourse with Roger Penrose[1], commenting on the unification of entropy and information:
"So on the picture that this suggests, to be conscious, a physical entity would have to do more than carry out the right sorts of computations. It would have to, as it were, fully participate in the thermodynamic arrow of time: that is, repeatedly take microscopic degrees of freedom that have been unmeasured and unrecorded since the very early universe, and amplify them to macroscopic scale."
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[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoWell, any kind of computation that erases information (for instance, taking two bits and using them to produce one bit in an AND gate) does have to increase entropy, so those two things are already one and the same.