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N-TROPY
while the star is getting more complex, it’s also helping entropy degrade
free energy into heat energy. This is something we will see throughout the
modern origin story. Increasing complexity is not a triumph over entropy.
Paradoxically, the flows of energy that sustain complex things (including
you and me) are helping entropy with its bleak task of slowly breaking
down all forms of order and structure
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HIGGS FIELD X PANPSY
Consider the Higgs field as an analogy: Physicists knew that the
Higgs field had to exist—if it didn’t, the electrons and quarks that make up
all of us would be massless and travel at the speed of light. For years before
the discovery of its carrier, the Higgs boson, they posited a Higgs field.
Although nothing about its confirmation supports (or provides any evidence
for) theories about consciousness, it helps us understand the analogous
proposition in panpsychism—that perhaps consciousness is another
property of matter, or of the universe itself, that we have yet to discover.
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