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It is clickbait. ABC transporters are not Maxwell (sic) Demons but billion-year-old electrochemical-mechanical one-way valves. Would you click on that?
by svnt 3y ago
It is clickbait. ABC transporters are not Maxwell (sic) Demons but billion-year-old electrochemical-mechanical one-way valves. Would you click on that?
- wiml 3y agoAll a Maxwell's Demon is is a one-way valve.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt's a selective one-way valve, that's why you need a demon there to check each molecule.
- namaria 3y agoI've always seen this thought experiment as implying that the key to decreasing entropy is a quantum of consciousness, whatever that may be.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoInteresting! I saw it as illustrating that computation (or some act of "deciding" in the abstract) takes energy and is subject to thermodynamics. But then as consciousness and computation have some kind of relationship, there must be thermodynamic implications of consciousness.