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Reading this is exhausting, not least because we have mathematical disagreements. But I understood most of this, and it was definitely interesting!

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just found an analogy--- I've ordered a book on the time question in philosophy of physics, https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/julian-barbour/the-janus-point/9780465095469/

order/information/preferences and loss thereof as somehow analogous to friction/heat

even Wolfram recently said entropy is apparent because we have a preferred way we consider an order, but in ordinary (Newtownian) physics where flow of time is reversible in the maths without differentiation, and all these worlds of higher order 'Order', why do we get any of them as the one, and why do we prefer ours such we seek to maintain it if they are all equivalent? if we remove it from our physics, where to we go to explain the gap here? intiuition again? emergence again? consciousness again? These are outcomes, and I never like to give them credit or blame for anything.... even causality is a type of guilt from a standpoint of analogy comparisons

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Thanks.

I regard my mathematical abilities as below average. And this whole blog attempt is a thinking aloud, lab notes not a letter to Nature. Currently owkring on using LLMs in answer to another request to make it clear on different post.

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