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1. In the marcoscopic universe entropy in a system is expected.
2. Therefore, given a symetric set of physical equations (symetric with entropy) one should always trace a baseball continually falling to lower energy states.
3. Baseballs do not continually move to lower energies. If I recall my physics class from last year at CLHS, a base ball should move away from the bat at 2x the speed it hit the bat.
4. Human beings have free will because they can put the base ball into the upper deck of a stadium, and are not bound to leave the baseball in its lowest energy state on the ground.
5. This does mean that I think, if a super intelligent being had all the information about the base ball from the beginning of time, he could not figure out where it was going to go because he would only see equations related to entropy, i.e., the baseball continually going to its lower energy states.
A baseball must not always move to lower energies. The only requirement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics is that total entropy increases. And anyway, entropy by itself says nothing at all about free will. It explains nothing of particle-particle interations, which are the root of physical determinism.
What I'm trying to say is that as entorpy increases predictability decreases. Take this Saturday's Kentucky Derby as an example. Every possible bit of information necessary for picking the derby winner will be published in some form. Despite this, very few people will have picked the winner. Take a supernova for instance, a super intelligent being may be able to predict what would happen to lead up to the supernova but would never be able to predict what would happen to the virtual particles created afterwords.
My derby trifecta play: 1st. Perfect Drift and Harlans Holiday with Harlan's Holiday, Came Home, Sarrland for place, with Came Home, Sarrland, Ocean Sound, and War Emblem for third. Stated numerically, 3-14/14-15-16/5-6-15-16.
I understand, but you're not looking at it from the right perspective. One must assume a being that has ALL available information (i.e., the position and velocity of EVERY subatomic particle involved in the supernova or the race, from those inside the horses or the star to the wind or the light coming from distant galaxies. In this light, entropy has no bearing whatsoever.
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1. In the marcoscopic universe entropy in a system is expected.
2. Therefore, given a symetric set of physical equations (symetric with entropy) one should always trace a baseball continually falling to lower energy states.
3. Baseballs do not continually move to lower energies. If I recall my physics class from last year at CLHS, a base ball should move away from the bat at 2x the speed it hit the bat.
4. Human beings have free will because they can put the base ball into the upper deck of a stadium, and are not bound to leave the baseball in its lowest energy state on the ground.
5. This does mean that I think, if a super intelligent being had all the information about the base ball from the beginning of time, he could not figure out where it was going to go because he would only see equations related to entropy, i.e., the baseball continually going to its lower energy states.
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My derby trifecta play: 1st. Perfect Drift and Harlans Holiday with Harlan's Holiday, Came Home, Sarrland for place, with Came Home, Sarrland, Ocean Sound, and War Emblem for third. Stated numerically, 3-14/14-15-16/5-6-15-16.
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