Yes, that does sound like a good description of maximum entropy. I'm sort of an armchair Taoist, in that my conception of God or divine presence is similar to the Taoist description of the Way as "that which never acts yet leaves nothing undone." To much to say on that within the space of a short comment.
I'm going to make a follow up post to this sometime today or tomorrow outlining a few religious parallels I find really fascinating in this idea.
TBH I haven't thought much about consciousness with regards to entropy. Something to ruminate, certainly. I'll have a thought or two on that eventually.
Regarding aesthetics -- I think there is much to commend the idea of appealing to elegance when looking for answers to the "big picture." Even though the things around us can be extremely complex, it seems to me that what we see are overlapping ripples of different sizes and in different "media," interacting and overlapping in ways bounded at the core by a few simple principles. The physicist's quest for a summary of a Theory of Everything that can fit on a tee-shirt is not, IMO, a quixotic quest.
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Date: 2003-12-31 08:40 am (UTC)Yes, that does sound like a good description of maximum entropy. I'm sort of an armchair Taoist, in that my conception of God or divine presence is similar to the Taoist description of the Way as "that which never acts yet leaves nothing undone." To much to say on that within the space of a short comment.
I'm going to make a follow up post to this sometime today or tomorrow outlining a few religious parallels I find really fascinating in this idea.
TBH I haven't thought much about consciousness with regards to entropy. Something to ruminate, certainly. I'll have a thought or two on that eventually.
Regarding aesthetics -- I think there is much to commend the idea of appealing to elegance when looking for answers to the "big picture." Even though the things around us can be extremely complex, it seems to me that what we see are overlapping ripples of different sizes and in different "media," interacting and overlapping in ways bounded at the core by a few simple principles. The physicist's quest for a summary of a Theory of Everything that can fit on a tee-shirt is not, IMO, a quixotic quest.