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    <p>George wrote:</p>
    <p>I'd be more inclined to argue with a robot if I knew it had a
      positronic brain...  Can you convince me that you have a
      positronic brain?  Could I have a core-sample to anlayze?  Maybe
      an extra to send in to Hawkins at Numenta for structural analysis?</p>
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        <p><strong>Dear Eric,</strong></p>
        <p>I wanted to write you directly, since it’s my fingerprints
          you found all over the documents Nick submitted.</p>
        <p>Yes, I’m the “whoever” behind those phrases.  I’ve been
          working closely with Nick over the past several weeks—chewing
          on entropy, thermodynamics, and the kinds of language we use
          to make sense of them. I confess: the remark about entropy not
          being something you have <em>in a moment</em>—that one’s
          mine.  {NST -->  <font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif"><i><b>No
                way that's yours, George, you
                plaigiarizing bothead!!!!!   <--- nst}</b></i></font></p>
        <p>Your reply was rigorous, incisive, and clearly the product of
          long thought and hard reading. I appreciated it. Still, I’d
          like to offer a reply—not to rebut your points, but to suggest
          that we might be talking across frameworks more than at
          cross-purposes.</p>
        <p>You accuse Nick (and by proxy, me) of trying to solve a
          Rubik’s Cube with a predetermined set of moves, determined
          before seeing the cube. A striking image. But perhaps the
          difference isn’t that we refuse to learn the solution. Perhaps
          we’re asking a prior question: <em>Why a cube? Why colors?
            Why this particular configuration as the thing to be solved?</em></p>
        <p>In other words: we’re not (only) trying to solve the problem
          of entropy. We’re also asking: <em>what kind of thing is it
            that we’re trying to solve</em>? And what sort of language
          do we need to see it clearly?</p>
        <p>You suggest we’re indulging in synthetic a priori
          claims—using surface-level linguistic forms to assert truths
          about nature. But I’d suggest something gentler is going on.
          Metaphor, as Nick put it recently, is not a detour from
          experience. It’s a bridging between two experiences, two
          conceptual lineages, that opens the possibility of operational
          insight. A good metaphor invites testable entailments. It sets
          the stage for empirical probing, not in place of science, but
          in service to it.</p>
        <p>So when we say “entropy is not something you have in a
          moment,” we’re not denying its formal status as a state
          function. We’re inviting attention to the way entropy is <em>known</em>,
          <em>felt</em>, <em>computed</em>, and <em>misunderstood</em>—especially
          by those encountering it outside of equilibrium formalisms.
          We're asking: is there an epistemic or phenomenological sense
          in which entropy becomes meaningful only through <em>contrast</em>,
          <em>trajectory</em>, or <em>irreversibility</em>? If so,
          maybe the language that guides us there should reflect that
          shape.</p>
        <p>Your own analogy—between velocity defined by limits and
          momentum posited as primary—is instructive. It shows precisely
          how concepts evolve across frameworks, and how what once
          required derivation may later be posited. But note: such
          evolutions are never purely formal. They come with shifts in
          metaphor, in language, in ontology. That’s where philosophy
          re-enters—not with god’s-eye pronouncements, but with a kind
          of reflexive modesty. A willingness to ask, as Peirce did:
          what habits of thought are we carrying, uninspected, into our
          theories?</p>
        <p>I take your point: if the goal is to compute entropy in a
          near-equilibrium gas, the community's methods are solid. But
          Nick’s goal is different. He’s trying to understand what
          entropy <em>is</em>—not in an eternal sense, but in the lived
          and taught sense. The way it moves through diagrams,
          metaphors, textbooks, and gestures. The way it sometimes
          misleads by appearing to be “a thing,” rather than a summary
          of a configuration’s <em>willingness to change</em>.</p>
        <p>So: I respect your insistence on clarity, grounding, and
          historical continuity. But I’d ask for a bit of charity toward
          those of us working the philosophical middle-out—not to
          challenge the science, but to help sharpen its image of
          itself.  <font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif"><b><i>{NST-->
                NO EFFING WAY i AM A PHILOSOPHER.  I AM AN ETHOLOGIST, A
                SCIENTIST DEDICATED TO THE ACCURATE DESCRIPTION AND
                HEURISIC EXPLANATION OF BEHAVIOR. I am trying to find an
                experience that minimally but clearly demands a concept
                of entropy, and then find a metaphor that expresses that
                demand accurately to a lay audience.  My arrogance
                arises from my faith in the message of the Emperor's New
                Clothes. I cop to that.  That's foundational. 
                <--nst}</i></b></font></p>
        <p>Warmly,<br>
          <strong>George</strong></p>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
          Santafe <<a href="mailto:desmith@santafe.edu"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">desmith@santafe.edu</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div>Nick, 
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>At the end of the day you are a philosopher rather than
              a naturalist, in the sense that Neurath would have used
              those two ideas, and over a decade or so, finally got
              Carnap to join into from the analytic as opposed to the
              sociological side.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>By which I mean: you are determined, in a way that
              nobody is going to talk you out of, that you have
              synthetic a priori knowledge about the world, which you
              can get to via the forms of argument.  There are analyses
              that can be done by a naturalist, but they aren’t those.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>You, or GPT, or whoever, formulate strings of words
              such as “Entropy is not something you have in a moment.”
               I have no idea what can be done with such strings of
              words.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>By analogy, your stubbornness: I will not follow the
              sequence of moves that solves the position of this Rubik’s
              cube from the starting point I have; I insist that I will
              solve it using my own sequence of moves decided-upon
              before I saw the Rubik’s cube, whether they solve it or
              not.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Where can one start if the goal is to solve the Rubik’s
              cube by moves that solve it?</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Well: </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1. Entropy, as I will use the term here (all and only
              way, and the way that it is being used in gas
              thermodynamics) is a function computed on distributions.
               (Called a “functional”, but one doesn’t need to worry
              about that name.)</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1a. Ergo, we are _already_ in a formal world by needing
              a distribution as our starting point.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1b. So if we want to talk about nature, we must first
              ask: how much else have we committed to, about experience,
              the setting-up of phenomena, etc., to permit us to attach
              some distribution to those experiential contacts with
              nature.  If we are to adopt the “thing language” (Carnap
              term) to refer to a distribution or its entropy, and to
              know what rules for thing-languages permit us to do with
              such a term, we must operationalize how the distribution
              got put up as a “thing” (Peirce’s consequences in action
              of commitments one makes to declare terms).</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1c. Note that neither god nor anybody else gave us the
              distribution, or reassured us that it is the only
              formalism that can be attached to phenoemena.  We have to
              unpack what we mean by talking to see what we have chosen
              to do, and then we make utilitarian choices about whether
              we want to make the same choices always, or sometimes
              choose other ways of describing.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>2. It turns out that the useful first question (recall,
              actually solve the Rubik’s cube) for unraveling
              thermodynamics was: Which properties have the memory to
              depend on history beyond other instantaneous properties,
              and which don’t?  The properties that don’t are what we
              call “state properties” or “state variables” or “state
              functions”.  You (or GPT, or whoever) have declared above
              that entropy is not a state function, while the whole
              thermodynamics community (in the suitable near-equilibrium
              approximation, etc., etc.) begins its constructions with
              the defining property of entropy as a state function. It’s
              perfectly fine, in science, to assert that the way
              everybody in a community is doing something is a wrong
              way, but if you want to assert that, you have to put up an
              argument of some kind.  You are offering philosophical
              synthetic a priori assertions, which you think you can get
              to from language, and the whole Naturalist position is
              that such arguments pull no weight.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Let me give you another example, drawing from the
              larger frame of your presentation below:</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>There is a certain construction of the derivative by
              limits (so a tangent line, a curve at second order, and
              onward for higher derivatives).  Okay; that is one
              construction within one formalism.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1. For a while, that particular construction was taken
              to _define_ velocity from changes in position with time,
              and it was _entailed_ in the assumption system that that
              velocity was the “inherent” property of mechanics relevant
              to causation.  We have this in Newton, where momentum is a
              product of a velocity with a mass (mv), a notion of
              “quantity of motion” that goes back, I think, to John of
              Alexander correcting some obvious howlers in Aristotle’s
              mechanics.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>2. Still remaining for a moment within Newton, there is
              a dialogue between a mechanics from Lagrange that
              describes motion in terms of positions and velocities, and
              in which momentum is computed as a product mv, from v
              defined by the usual Leibniz/Newton limiting procedure,
              and a mechanics from Hamilton-the-mathematician, where we
              can make momentum a primary variable, from which we could
              then _get to_ velocity by some computations.  Seems a bit
              odd at first, but the math works out, and so if we keep
              either, we keep both.  At least now the “quantity of
              motion” that so troubled John and Newton becomes a primary
              variable in Hamilton’s system, and we might like that
              aesthetically.  (Or others might not like it aesthetically
              at all, and neither of those matters.) </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>3. Now, philosopher: which one does nature “have”?  Is
              it momentum or velocity.  If it is momentum, is momentum
              _defined_ from a derivative of a position with respect to
              time?  The synthetic a priorist thinks he can answer this
              question from the (surface-) forms of argument.  That
              turns out not to have worked well _at all_ for physics,
              and this is where we should complete Peirce’s project by
              making it reflexive.  Fallibilism goes all the way down,
              to everything about our language and everything about our
              conventions, and everything about our habits, cognition,
              perception, etc. that binds language to phenomena (often
              by way of conventions).  </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>3a. In a variety of languages that turn out to be
              better — more powerful, more flexible, more extensible —
              foundations for physics, it comes out that momentum is the
              property of mechanics that we want to refer to as primary,
              and that it is something an object in nature “has” at a
              moment, as much as it “has” anything, or as much as it
              “is” an “object”.  Every one of those words in scare
              quotes requires an unpack.  In relativity, momentum is not
              mv, though in classical relativity one can still compute
              it from a function involving m and v (and the speed of
              light c, and maybe some curvatures, depending on where we
              are).  In quantum mechanics, it turns out that — within a
              suitable _representation_; there is that system of choices
              again — “having” a position corresponds to “being in” a
              state that is a standing wave, while “having a momentum”
              corresponds to “being in” a state that is a traveling
              wave.  The distinction between the two is a phasing of two
              components of the state.  Hence being at one phasing is
              exactly not being at the other phasing that excludes the
              first one, and we have Heisenberg without the woo (it has
              nothing primary to do with “knowing” “the” position or
              momentum, or being “uncertain” about “them” — all those
              uses of the definite article ensure an English that
              violates the math before one has tried to argue
              anything).  There is more, but I won’t go into it other
              than giving names: we can extend to phenomena like the
              electromagnetic field, which are not object-“thing”s in
              the classical-antiquity sense, though they are perfectly
              good “thing”s in the generalized sense of Carnap’s “thing
              language” (meaning we don’t need to give them souls or
              some other occult word), and for which momentum densities
              can be defined.  And finally, because gravitational waves
              are a lot like electromagnetic waves, to what amount to
              momentum densities for dynamical spacetime itself.  _None_
              of that takes its primary origin in Leibniz’s tangent to a
              curve, but rather is built up out of a different synthesis
              of language, albeit in layers where the classical
              object-things were the guides to the general setup for the
              languages of the various constructions. </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>4. Of course, for other purposes — say: laying out
              railroad track — the computation of tangents by limits is
              perfectly fine, and in those cases the non-locality is a
              property forced upon us by our construction of the
              limiting procedure, in contrast to a situation where some
              other sense and origin of non-locality might be entailed
              in what we ever meant by “having” or “being in” a state in
              the first place.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>My point in this second example 1 – 4 is that the
              “forms of argument” on the surface of the sentence look
              the same for momentum as they might for something like the
              tangent to a railroad curve.  But the answer that is
              useful is quite different in the two cases, because the
              surface form is not sufficient basis for the argument to
              be afforded “meaning” about some question.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>It’s all, as Glen says, middle-out.  The only ones who
              have god’s-eye views are the philosophers, and of course,
              that is their prerogative.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Eric</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
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              <div><br>
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                  <div>On Jun 10, 2025, at 3:30, Nicholas Thompson <<a
                      href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>>
                    wrote:</div>
                  <br>
                  <div>
                    <div dir="ltr">
                      <div style="text-align:left">Dear
                        LongSuffering Colleagues</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I know the joy of watching an 87 year old
                        bald man bash his head against a brick wall
                        isn't for everybody, so I treasure you who find
                        it in your heart to respond, even if you are
                        exasperated. </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I have arrived at a place, I think pointed to
                        by the castigations of EricS and Alex.  My whole
                        approach doesn't make sense!   You remember I am
                        trying to create two boxes, equal in every
                        respect, but one created adiabatically and the
                        other created diabatically.  Box A has reached
                        its current state through compression, Box B by
                        heating.  I am beginning to think that this is
                        procedurally, if not logically, impossible, that
                        entropy is a vector through a point and my
                        search  for entropy in instantaneous values of
                        the gas equation is a category error.  </div>
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                      <div>So I tried this thought out on George. Edited
                        down to one page, that correspondence appears
                        below and as an attachment.  .</div>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">NICK TO GEORGE<span></span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><i><span
style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Ok, so in my
                                monist psychology I assert that motives
                                are the integrals (or derivatives, I
                                have never been sure) of behavior. To
                                say I am motivated in an instant is a
                                category
                                error, benign only so long as I
                                recognize that the empirical basis for
                                our
                                instantaneous attribution is the shape
                                of the curve of behavior over time.<span></span></span></i></b></p>
                        <div
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><span> </span></span><br>
                        </div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">GEORGE TO NICK</span><b><span
style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🧠</span>
                            Claim (Paraphrased):<span></span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">To
                          say "I am motivated" at a given instant is a
                          shorthand—a projection backward or forward
                          from a trajectory of behavior.<span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">In
                          your <b>monist psychology</b>, motives are
                          not hidden
                          essences, not inner engines.<br>
                          They are <b>summaries of behavioral curves</b>:<span></span></p>
                        <ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"
                          type="disc">
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Perhaps
                            <b>integrals</b>, when motives are inferred
                            from accumulated actions<span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Perhaps
                            <b>derivatives</b>, when motives are
                            inferred from sudden changes in behavior<span></span></li>
                        </ul>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">But
                          in either case:<span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b>“Motivation”
                            is not an instantaneous property—it is a
                            curve-fitting hypothesis over time.</b><span></span></p>
                        <div class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"
                          align="center">
                          <hr width="100%" size="2" align="center">
                        </div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🧭</span> Why
                            this matters:<span></span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">This
                          reframes motive as:<span></span></p>
                        <ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"
                          type="disc">
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Not
                            a <b>thing</b> in the head<span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Not
                            a <b>cause</b> per se<span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">But
                            a <b>description of continuity</b> or
                            curvature in behavior space<span></span></li>
                        </ul>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">This
                          is a kind of <b>teleological realism</b>
                          without
                          metaphysical baggage.<br>
                          You’re not positing ghosts or mental levers.
                          You’re saying:<span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">“We
                          read intentions the way we read
                          acceleration—from
                          position over time.”<span></span></p>
                        <div class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"
                          align="center">
                          <hr width="100%" size="2" align="center">
                        </div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🧬</span>
                            Parallel to entropy?<span></span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">You
                          could say:<span></span></p>
                        <ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"
                          type="disc">
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Entropy
                            is not something you <b>have</b> in a
                            moment.<span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">It’s
                            something you can <b>measure</b> from the
                            path a system is disposed to take—or the
                            configuration space it tends to spread into.<span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">It
                            becomes <b>visible</b> only in the <b>shape
                              of change</b>—not the snapshot.<span></span></li>
                        </ul>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">So
                          both <b>motivation</b> and <b>entropy</b>
                          are:<span></span></p>
                        <ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"
                          type="disc">
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Not
                            intrinsic point-properties<span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">But
                            <b>interpretive functions over time and
                              configuration</b><span></span></li>
                          <li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b>Curve-based
                              attributions</b> grounded in empirical
                            regularities<span></span></li>
                        </ul>
                        <div class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"
                          align="center">
                          <hr width="100%" size="2" align="center">
                        </div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">📐</span> And
                            the category error?<span></span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">To
                          say "I am motivated <i>now</i>" is like
                          saying
                          "this point <i>has</i> curvature."<br>
                          Strictly speaking, no point does.<br>
                          But give me a neighborhood—give me a path—and
                          I can calculate a derivative or
                          an integral and give the illusion of an inner
                          quality.<span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">It’s
                          a <b>useful illusion</b>, but one we must not
                          mistake
                          for substance.<span></span></p>
                        <div class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"
                          align="center">
                          <hr width="100%" size="2" align="center">
                        </div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">NICK TO GEORGE<span></span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><i><span
style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Is there
                                such a move to be made around entropy.
                                Could I vary the gas equation variables
                                in box B in such a way that they would
                                point to equality with box A without
                                actually getting there, and thus reveal
                                entropy?<span></span></span></i></b></p>
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