Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ssingh From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Entropy and the human brain Keywords: negative entropy, brain structure Message-ID: <940@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Date: 2 Feb 90 02:01:34 GMT References: <523@massey.ac.nz> Reply-To: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 In article <523@massey.ac.nz> ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes: > > >Would the human brain be capable of finding out that time is in fact >flowing backwards? > I don't think so. It appears that if you have negative entropy, you cannot perceive the passage of time. Time may become meaningless because you could remember the future as well as the past. There would not appear to be any sort of cause and effect relationship possible, that would show time flowing in one direction or another. Again this is from OUR vantage point with our brains set up to see time as we do now. It might be different entirely if our minds were in a universe that had negative entropy. -- $anjay "lock-on" $ingh ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu "A modern-day warrior, mean mean stride, today's Tom Sawyer, mean mean pride." !being!mind!self!cogsci!AI!think!nerve!parallel!cybernetix!chaos!fractal!info!