Entropy, Biological Evolution and the Psychological Arrow of Time - Journal of Modern Physics

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Journal of Modern Physics

Volume 7, Issue 2 (January 2016)

ISSN Print: 2153-1196 ISSN Online: 2153-120X

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Entropy, Biological Evolution and the Psychological Arrow of Time ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2016.72023 4,752 Downloads 5,947 Views Citations

Author(s)

Torsten Heinrich^1*, Benjamin Knopp², Heinrich Päs³

Affiliation(s)

¹Institute for Institutional and Innovation Economics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
²Fachbereich Physik, AG Neurophysik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
³Fakultät für Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.

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.

KEYWORDS

Arrow of Time, Time Asymmetry, Entropy, Evolution

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Heinrich, T. , Knopp, B. and Päs, H. (2016) Entropy, Biological Evolution and the Psychological Arrow of Time. Journal of Modern Physics, 7, 228-236. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2016.72023.

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