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High Entropy State Only Boring To Bounded Observer

The claim that the universe is heading toward a boring high-entropy state with no structure is an artifact of being a computationally bounded observer; a more capable observer might perceive the same gas-in-equilibrium state as amazingly complex microscopic structure, so 'high entropy' reflects the observer's inability to extract structure rather than an objective absence of it.

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Speaker

Stephen Wolfram

Evidence Quote

to another kind of observer they might say, but look at all those little details about what's happening, this is the most amazing complex structure that you can imagine.

Source

155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental PhysicsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM

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