Mar 28, 2022·edited Mar 28, 2022Liked by Angela Volkov
Just because entropy tends towards a maximum, doesn't mean it implies "time". It merely implies things are always going to get messier (with less energy) unless someone/something cleans it up by using energy (from somewhere else) to reposition/move things back into an ordered state/condition where they contain the some (likely never to be all) of the energy expended.
I just realized this a couple weeks ago, and ruined my ability to ever enjoy time-travel movies any more.
"Time" is a construct our brains invented. I'm pretty sure it isn't necessary in physics except maybe as a math construct. Our existence from birth to death is a long series of causes/forces and their effects. There's no undoing of any of it, except by applying opposite causes/forces and there's (I think) not much you can fix back exactly the way it was. (Although I did read once about a guy who figured out how to uncook hard-boiled eggs.)
"Wasting time" is simply "wasting opportunities" to have an effect upon the world around you.
There's no "past" except as memories of our past forces/effects.
And there's no "future" except as what "might happen" if we force things a particular way.
Our brains can predict and plan and think through a series of causes and effects, like dedicated Chess players thinking "moves ahead", but I don't know of too many people who have had everything they planned ever actually happen. I certainly can't get past 1 revolution of the Earth without my plans being obliterated by someone else's plans already forced/caused.
I haven't thought anymore beyond this.
But it has pretty much given me the ability to tell the "woulda/shoulda/coulda" line of pondering to cease if it isn't contributing to any cause/force I intend to try the next time I wake from sleep.
I do use the construct of time still... if I don't want to be completely overrun by the effects of others... I have to make sure my causes/forces have their effects in a way that creates ORDER and not further ENTROPY... and that means aligning MY IMPACT in the world in a civilized concert with the people around me.
Just because entropy tends towards a maximum, doesn't mean it implies "time". It merely implies things are always going to get messier (with less energy) unless someone/something cleans it up by using energy (from somewhere else) to reposition/move things back into an ordered state/condition where they contain the some (likely never to be all) of the energy expended.
I just realized this a couple weeks ago, and ruined my ability to ever enjoy time-travel movies any more.
"Time" is a construct our brains invented. I'm pretty sure it isn't necessary in physics except maybe as a math construct. Our existence from birth to death is a long series of causes/forces and their effects. There's no undoing of any of it, except by applying opposite causes/forces and there's (I think) not much you can fix back exactly the way it was. (Although I did read once about a guy who figured out how to uncook hard-boiled eggs.)
"Wasting time" is simply "wasting opportunities" to have an effect upon the world around you.
There's no "past" except as memories of our past forces/effects.
And there's no "future" except as what "might happen" if we force things a particular way.
Our brains can predict and plan and think through a series of causes and effects, like dedicated Chess players thinking "moves ahead", but I don't know of too many people who have had everything they planned ever actually happen. I certainly can't get past 1 revolution of the Earth without my plans being obliterated by someone else's plans already forced/caused.
I haven't thought anymore beyond this.
But it has pretty much given me the ability to tell the "woulda/shoulda/coulda" line of pondering to cease if it isn't contributing to any cause/force I intend to try the next time I wake from sleep.
I do use the construct of time still... if I don't want to be completely overrun by the effects of others... I have to make sure my causes/forces have their effects in a way that creates ORDER and not further ENTROPY... and that means aligning MY IMPACT in the world in a civilized concert with the people around me.