[FRIAM] Philosophy of Physics Workshop: Foundations of Thermodynamics - Sean Carroll

[Pieter Steenekamp]

A very interesting philosophical view on the apparent inconsistency between
for example increase in complexity when life developed on earth and the
second law of thermodynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOW_hEfMimI

I quote from the description of the presentation:

"Complexogenesis
Increasing entropy is often glossed as increasing disorder or randomness.
But in the evolution from the low-entropy early universe to the
high-entropy future, complex structures apparently come into existence
along the way. This isn’t in violation of the Second Law, as the formation
and persistence of complex structures can be entropy-increasing processes;
but it does raise the question of whether the appearance of complexity is
automatic, and what kinds of rules govern it. I will propose a
classification of different kinds of complex physical structures, discuss
when and how they arise dynamically in undirected thermodynamic evolution,
and relate them to issues of information and statistical physics."
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20250601/66141372/attachment.html>