[MD] The Anti-entropic Miopic

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Case,
For your consideration.
Best,
Mark.
 
Scientists have in fact constructed a plausible story of how we become  aware 
of change, and it makes no use of absolute disappearances and  replacements. 
Our universe is described as in a state of very low entropy -  great 
orderliness - at the Big Bang extremity of its career. Events successively  more 
distant in time from this point are almost always of greater and greater  
disorderliness, rather as cards ordered by suit and rank take on, almost always,  more 
and more confused arrangements with shuffling. Now, the general trend  towards 
disorderliness at moments more and more remote from the Big Bang is  
parasitised by living systems, brains included, to increase their own  orderliness in 
useful ways - in the case of brains, often through  orderly transfer of 
information from moment to moment, as in the case of  memorising and recalling. Such 
orderly transfer is possible only in the  direction earlier-to-later, this 
being the direction opposite to the entropy  increase that is being parasitised. 
(Leslie. 2003. Infinite Minds. p.  119)