Entropy, biological evolution and the psychological arrow of time
General Physics
2015-12-01 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Other Quantitative Biology
Abstract
We argue that in Universes where future and past differ only by the entropy content a psychological arrow of time pointing in the direction of entropy increase can arise from natural selection in biological evolution. We show that this effect can be demonstrated in very simple toy computer simulations of evolution in an entropy increasing or decreasing environment.
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@article{arxiv.1401.3734,
title = {Entropy, biological evolution and the psychological arrow of time},
author = {Torsten Heinrich and Benjamin Knopp and Heinrich Päs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3734},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in Journal of Modern Physics