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Comment by Mike_Simons on The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition · 2008-02-27T02:15:13.000Z · LW · GW

Without discounting the predictive power of the second law, my confidence in our understanding of its physical basis has been seriously reduced. This after viewing a recent series of talks held at MIT, Meeting the Entropy Challenge.

Of particular interest were the discussions about the lack of an established definition of entropy.