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I would imagine that a theoretical physicist on LSD would sound like these comments. I love it. But more seriously (and with tons of respect, because these top

I would imagine that a theoretical physicist on LSD would sound like these comments. I love it. But more seriously (and with tons of respect, because these topics are difficult) - why invoke all these complicated concepts? When we discuss statistical mechanics it is kind of understood that the ferromagnet we try to describe is not placed on the innermost stable orbit around a black hole, and similarly when I look in a mirror there is little need to worry about the difference between P and CPT. I guess one can say that the essence of a physical system is not always in the fundamentals of physics? Having said that, I do not know what "intelligence" is, so I do not know how to relate it to entropy.

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> I would imagine that a theoretical physicist on LSD would sound like these comments. I love it. I don't need LSD! > When we discuss statistical mechanics it is kind of understood that the ferromagnet we try to describe is not placed on the innermost stable orbit around a black hole If your theory of statistical mechanics requires that, then your theory is wrong, or at least badly incomplete. That might not be a problem you need to care about for practical reasons, but it is a problem. > I guess one can say that the essence of a physical system is not always in the fundamentals of physics? Depends on what you mean by "essence" and "fundamentals" - you're not going to have good time trying to analyze a computer [0] running a game-of-life sim in terms of it's constituent quarks, obviously - but there's usually something useful to be learned from the underlying physical laws. 0: (whose primary descriptive quality is that it's)