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An amazing analogy. I don't see any issues here - you explain thermodynamics very well, tracing its origins to how it's impossible to surmount the second law. The historical change of Maxwell's demon was key to showing the parallels between information and entropy. Thus, the culture of connecting the dots from different disciplines continues.

I also used the second law to develop my theory of evolution, what I call Organismal Selection. With this initial point of view, I develop a theory that covers areas that Natural Selection couldn't.

Enjoyed the piece.

*side note - there's a paragraph where there's some degree of repetition. It's more like a duplication. You can eliminate that bit. Besides that, the piece is good 🙌

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https://theonealternativeview.substack.com/p/the-brain-behaves-like-an-egg?publication_id=1751310&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=a3y6x&utm_medium=email

Forgive me for my poor English, I use Google translate. For my taste, this is a great post. In my lectures, I use the analogy of magical thinking in comparison with Popper's falsifiability criterion. People with magical thinking are immune to new ideas, they are their brain, protected from new ideas like an egg from its shell, new ideas bounce off them like a ball.

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