Sender Spike
1 min readAug 9, 2021

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Yes, at the quantum level entropy breaks down (is reversible). The only problem is that it's true only at the quantum level. Sending two qubits "back in time" had success rate 85%, but adding another qubit immediately dropped the success rate to 50%. And while the authors of the discovery blame it on an imperfect quantum computer, it's obvious that the more complex the system the less are these "wild, raw" quantum laws applicable in large-scale day-to-day reality. Not to mention that the process is akin to swimming against the stream (of natural entropy) -- you have to "kick" the qubits constantly to keep them "back in time".

What I however find absolutely interesting is that quantum theory essentially confirmed non-duality -- everything is but one indivisible "quantum soup" literally emerging out of nowhere and our sensations are not only tinted by our mental biases, they are in their essence illusory (no one ever perceived quanta, particles, not even electric signals firing in the brain, directly).

I doubt, however, that we will ever have a "physics for consciousness" as there's no way to go "outside" of it (or even outside of mind for that matter). And the prediction of Hindu philosophy is that there is also no way to find out how the quanta actually pop out out of nowhere ("Maya is inscrutable"). Well, we will see.

All in all, I would say that not some new physics but further advances in neuroscience and psychology will play a key role in forming the "new paradigm".

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