Re:Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
by altrego99 on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:51PM
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> Allowing the rod to fall will _lower_ the entropy of the system??
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Re:Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
by ozankabak on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:04PM
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Yes. I don't know the exact dynamics of their toy problem, but thinking about it this way can help: When the rod falls over, it will stay there from then on. In terms of the number of possible future states, there are less possibilities for the system.