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First they need to revoke mathematics, that less probable states will transition to more probable states.
by yters 7y ago
First they need to revoke mathematics, that less probable states will transition to more probable states.
- vbezhenar 7y agoLife would not emerge at all if this statement would be that simple.
- TomMarius 7y agoNah, you just account time to explain life
- goblin89 7y agoThere is a hypothesis that life emerged because living things dissipate energy more efficiently[0]. As one possible implication, individual immortality given humanity as we know it might appear counter to that goal. As a more far-fetched implication, evolving humanity in a way that motivates accelerating efficiency of energy capture and dissipation even as individual longevity increases could theoretically unexpectedly inch us closer to immortality. [0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...
- yters 7y agoOr the source of life lies outside the physical plane. Modus tollens to the rescue!
- chithanh 7y agoMathematics does allow for such things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...
- yters 7y agoSure, there is always a possibility of return, at least on a 2d plane (not 3d), but still mathematics will have to be revoked to favor low probability macrostates. Certainly an ambituous goal!
- antepodius 7y agoThat's not what that theorem says. It says that there's a guarantee of return, eventually.
- chithanh 7y agoI think you might be confusing this with the 2D/3D random walk in a discrete infinite space? Poincaré recurrence is about exhausting the phase space in (discrete or continuous) bounded systems.