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Human Consciousness Could Be a Side Effect of Entropy, Study Suggests

Science Alert

19 October 2023
By FIONA MACDONALD

It’s impressive enough that our human brains are made up of the same ‘star stuff’ that forms the Universe, but a wild study published back in 2016 suggests that this might not be the only thing the two have in common.

Just like the Universe, our brains might be programmed to maximise disorder – similar to the principle of entropy – and our consciousness could simply be a side effect, the paper suggests.

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