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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-12-16 · 128 min · 23,953 words

How AI Sees Science Differently Than We Do

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What if Isaac Newton had focused on why the apple rotted rather than why it fell? Now he couldn't have done that. The reason he couldn't have done that was that that he had you think like Marty McFly goes back to 1955. Is it also 1955 on Venus? Ct is the entire universe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when you ask that question, so well, wait a minute, you know, what does it mean to go back into time? So you you you could probably borrow borrow entropy from some other system and push something back, but you can't stop everything around it from decaying. And so it's it may be back as a single system the way it had once been, but the other systems around it have decayed.

So in relation to them it is different. One of the criticisms of evolutionary theory was that it violates the second law of thermodynamics, which trends towards disorder, but That's a misunderstanding of where energy comes from. The word energy was developed just before entropy. And one of the core notions of the book is that, you know, the sun's not shining, it's decaying, that we don't get any energy without something else's destruction.

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