Oct 5, 2022
Why does time go forwards, not backwards?
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: neuroscience, physics
This is perhaps the strangest thing about the arrow of time: “It only lasts for a little while,” says Carroll.
It’s very hard to picture what might happen if the arrow of time eventually vanishes. “When we think we produce heat in our neurons,” says Rovelli. “Thinking is a process in which the neuron needs entropy to work. Our sense of time passing is just what entropy does to our brain.”
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