(January 18, 2015 at 9:14 am)Rhythm Wrote: enclaves are not an expression of the negation of entropy..they're still a function -of it-. All of the stuff in the sun came from elsewhere, it all washes. No "reverse entropy" is being "generated"..it's just happening more slowly in one place at the expense of an increase in another.
"More slowly" can also be expressed as "in reverse" - it's relative, nu?
Certainly these enclaves are a function of entropy, I intended to make that clear in my post (and apparently failed). My argument is that "free will" could be a similar sort of pocket or enclave in a deterministic universe. Just as there are small areas in an entropic system in which complexity is increasing temporarily, so there might be small areas in a deterministic system in which determinism/predictability is temporarily missing.
