Step 29 - Stephen Hawking, Entropy, & Remembering The Future

This Lesson is about three laws of nature, time, entropy and simulation. It teaches us how to slow down entropy and see into the future.

Several things in the universe are certain. One thing is that time is moving forward. According to Stephen Hawking’s newest insights psychological, cosmological and thermodynamical time is irreversibly moving us forward.

Another law is the law of entropy. Entropy states that as time progresses things get more disorderly and chaotic. Cells start making more and more mistakes. As we get older, we get more sick. Our body decays. Even fire looses its heat, the more the flames pass trough time and distance themselves from the core.

"It is not that we have a short time to live. But that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough. And a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements, if it was all well invested. But when your life is wasted in needless luxury and spend in no good activity we are forced at last by deaths final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is we are not given a short life, but we make it short. And we are not ill supplied (with time) but we are wasteful of it. It is a small part of life, most people truly live. Indeed all the rest is not life, but merely time."

Our greatest enemy is expectancy. The second we expect endless time or the ability to reverse mistakes, the second we make this false assumption, we will spent our time frivolously. Instead of going straight lines, we take circular routes, we take our time. But the most valuable commodity is not money. It can be lost and remade. The most valuable commodity is time.

Where do people waste their time in primarily?

  1. Spending time for the benefit of other people (f.e. in a job were you make other people rich)

The one way to get rid of entropy is to double down and invest in our self. The injection of our time, effort, focus and concentration on our life. Plainly speaking: Take time for yourself.

If we don't invest in our self's, day by day, our health will slowly decay and our wealth will slowly go downhill. By injecting our time and focus we can't reverse these effects, but we can slow down the decay.

The only way to reverse time, is by remembering the future, which means the successful simulation of the life of other people. Through qualitative knowledge, reading books, we are getting insight, which is just as if we are slowing down time.

Time is the most valuable resource, since it is irreversible and can not be gotten back. So the lesson is, don't waste it in needless luxury and no good activity. Instead invest it in your self to reverse the acceleration of entropy.

Embrace the fact of time.

Questions

  1. How have you been squandering your time?

    Not any more. At least not much. But in the past with video games.

  2. What or who could you be embracing that you have been procrastinating seeking out?

    There is a guy in Berlin whose connection I shall be embracing.

  3. What are you going to do to slow down entropy?

    Boxing for health. Saving and investing. Traveling for love.