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Does anyone have any good online references to physicists' theories on why we experience ourselves as moving into the future?
In one sense it seems silly. If time passes at a constant rate, then what is that rate, what even are the units of that rate? One second per second??
I had assumed that entropy could explain why we can remember the past but only make hazy guesses at the future.
For example: Suppose the universe starts as a single cube of ice, 1m wide (call this state A). Notice that it is very low entropy and also very easy to describe. It melts and cracks to become a much more complicated configuration (state B). State B could potentially include a memory of state A for example a smaller ice cube. Since State A is simpler than state B, it cannot contain a version (or memory) of it.
Could this act of including memories from the past into the present give us the sensation that we have just come from the past?
In one sense it seems silly. If time passes at a constant rate, then what is that rate, what even are the units of that rate? One second per second??
I had assumed that entropy could explain why we can remember the past but only make hazy guesses at the future.
For example: Suppose the universe starts as a single cube of ice, 1m wide (call this state A). Notice that it is very low entropy and also very easy to describe. It melts and cracks to become a much more complicated configuration (state B). State B could potentially include a memory of state A for example a smaller ice cube. Since State A is simpler than state B, it cannot contain a version (or memory) of it.
Could this act of including memories from the past into the present give us the sensation that we have just come from the past?