Case,
For your consideration.
Best,
Mark.
Scientists have in fact constructed a plausible story of how we become aware
of change, and it makes no use of absolute disappearances and replacements.
Our universe is described as in a state of very low entropy - great
orderliness - at the Big Bang extremity of its career. Events successively
more
distant in time from this point are almost always of greater and greater
disorderliness, rather as cards ordered by suit and rank take on, almost
always, more
and more confused arrangements with shuffling. Now, the general trend towards
disorderliness at moments more and more remote from the Big Bang is
parasitised by living systems, brains included, to increase their own
orderliness in
useful ways - in the case of brains, often through orderly transfer of
information from moment to moment, as in the case of memorising and recalling.
Such
orderly transfer is possible only in the direction earlier-to-later, this
being the direction opposite to the entropy increase that is being
parasitised.
(Leslie. 2003. Infinite Minds. p. 119)
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