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I'm fairly sure this is already in the usual canon of statistical mechanics.

"When one compares a hotplate with and without a Benard cell apparatus on top, there is an overall increase in entropy as energy passes through the system as required by the second law, because the increase in entropy in the environment (at the heat sink) is greater than the decreases in entropy that come about by maintaining gradients within the Benard cell system."



The abstract heresy innuendo'd here seems to be about an increase in global (aka universal) "complexity"*

(Think: no heat death!)

Related to another heresy understated by qmag just this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665831

In that case, qmag didn't (dare to?) shout loud enough that the para-particles are globally ?distinguishable..

That's like a very restricted version of TFA's claim though..

Another take on the issue:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762

*I don't want to say "entropy" because it's not clear to many folks, including experts, whether entropy is uh, "correlated" or "anticorrelated" with complexity.


> "correlated" or "anticorrelated" with complexity.

Also the value of entropy has different signs in thermodynamics and computer science for example. Not helpful either...


It's because thermo count states and CS use probabilities.. strange swap, I know, pple assume the opposite..




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