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We may think of order and entropy/chaos as opposites, but actually causality and entropy that are opposites, yet two sides of one coin.

Causality is just order in motion.

Former neuroscientist working in AI and distributed data. https://relativereality.substack.com Writings.


Recursive nature of human experience: /mirror-loom

If you mix random ratios of gas long enough, they’ll be distributed fairly evenly. Seems ordered to me, despite the increase in entropy values…

I make rockets IRL.
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Soldier once upon a time.

What this gets at is that order and chaos are all in the eye of the beholder. And perhaps why the concept is often so confusing. 

In many ways a glass of water seems more ordered than a block of ice.

I propose we re-write every cookbook to say “maximize entropy” instead of “mix ingredients”

When you get to into definitions of “order” it’s about how well details can be summarized by some other means. The more stares that are equivalent, the more entropy.

If all gas molecules are ordered into a cube in perfect alignment and static, that’s easy to describe and ordered, if they are randomly bouncing around the container, that’s high entropy with nearly infinite equivalent ‘states.’