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[Anonymous No.14047762]

>tfw existence is basically just a futile battle against thermodynamic equilibrium and that everything is basically at the mercy of entropy

[Anonymous No.14047782]

>>14047762
It's not like you'll be around long enough to worry about it desu

[Anonymous No.14047783]

>>14047762
Schrodinger himself did not believe that but wrote in his various books and diaries that he agreed with Vedanta

[Anonymous No.14047807]

>>14047783
he was also into little girls

[Anonymous No.14047881]

>>14047807
Vedanta AND little girls? truly a patrician for the ages

[Anonymous No.14047894]

>>14047783
>Schrodinger himself did not believe that
he wrote it in his book anticipating the discovery of DNA

[Anonymous No.14048294]

Fermis thermodynamics was also very interesting

[Anonymous No.14048305]

>>14047762
But dude, if the base state of the world is entropy than how come I'm not just 'not'? Sounds like a monistic universe after all.

[Anonymous No.14048363]

In time this cycle of time will dissipate, just like the one before, and the one before that, and to be reborn, forever.

[Anonymous No.14048444]

>>14048363
For eternity possessing permanency, both according to its inward energy, and that which it exerts to things eternal, Time being assimilated to it, according to the former of these energies, becomes separated from it according to the latter, abiding and being moved. And as with respect to the essence of the soul, we say that it is intelligible and at the same time generated, partible, and at the same time impartible, and are no otherwise able to apprehend its middle nature than by employing after a manner opposites, what wonder is there if, perceiving the nature of Time to be partly immoveable, and partly subsisting in motion, we, or rather not we, but prior to us, the philosopher, through the eternal, should indicate its intellectual monad abiding in sameness, and through the moveable its externally proceeding energy, which is participated by soul and the whole world ? For we must not think that the expression the eternal simply indicates that Time is the image of eternity; for if this were the case, what would have hindered Plato from directly saying that it is the image, and not the eternal image of
eternity ? But he was willing to indicate this very thing, that time has an eternal nature, but not in such a manner as animal itself [the paradigm of the universe] is said to be eternal. For that is eternal both in essence and energy; but Time is partly eternal, and partly, by its external gift, moveable. Hence theurgists call it eternal; and Plato very properly denominates it not only so. For one thing is alone moveable, both essentially and according to the participants of it, being alone the cause of motion, as soul, and hence it alone moves itself and other things; but another thing is alone immoveable, preserving itself without transition, and being the cause to other things of a perpetual subsistence after the same manner, and to moveable natures through soul. It is necessary therefore, that the medium between these two extremes should be that which, both according to its own nature, and the gifts which it imparts to others, is immoveable and at the same time moveable, essentially immoveable indeed, but moved in its participants. A thing however of this kind is Time.

[Anonymous No.14048453]

>>14047881
kek

[Anonymous No.14048454]

>>14048444
Hence Time is truly, so far as it is considered in itself, immoveable; but so far as it is in its participants, it is moveable, and subsists together with them, unfolding itself into them.
It is therefore, eternal, and a monad and center essentially, and according to its own abiding energy; but it is at the same time, continuous, and number, and a circle, according to its proceeding and being participated. Hence, it is a certain proceedingintellect, established indeed in eternity, and on this account is said to be eternal.
For it would not otherwise contribute to the assimilation of mundane natures to more perfect paradigms, unless it were itself previously suspended from them. But it proceeds and abundantly flows, into the things which are guarded by it. Whence I think the chief of theurgists celebrate Time as a God, as Julian in the seventh of the Zones, and venerate it by those names, through which it is unfolded in its participants, causing some things to be older, and others to be younger, and leading all things in a circle. Time therefore, possessing a certain intellectual nature, circularly leads according to number, both its other participants and souls.

[Anonymous No.14048925]

>>14047762
>tfw Heraclit was right all along

[Anonymous No.14048955]

>>14047762
This is unironically what happens when you become a physicist instead of a Schopenhauer scholar like Schrodinger considered when he was young