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Entropy Is in the Eye of the Beholder

2 pointsby spacetimeuser5over 1 year ago

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proc0over 1 year ago
Interesting and requires some more thought but initially it seems that the necessary low entropy of the conscious observer is left out.<p>&gt; In other words, if an observer knew all information regarding a system, there would be only one microstate, and the system would be devoid of entropy. This illustrates that entropy describes the information a conscious agent knows about a system, rather than being an inherent property of systems.<p>Knowing all the information in the system would require a omniscient consciousness which implies extremely low entropy. So entropy has to also include the information of the conscious being analyzing the environment and I think this steps into Godel&#x27;s Incompleteness theorem as the entity inside the system can never have full omniscience, (unless that is God, which is another matter). This is also similar to Maxwell&#x27;s daemon, where the daemon can lower entropy if it can individually control each particle, but this doesn&#x27;t violate the 2nd Law because it requires the daemon keep track of all the particles somehow (which is a way of saying the system already starts with low entropy).