SIO407: Entropy and Information

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It's another physicode with Dr. Bryan Gillis! Bryan heard the food episode recently and wanted to chime in with a physics perspective on why your brain needs energy. Sure, there are obvious biological reasons, but also, speaking more universally, there's a reason why computing information requires energy. It involves entropy! Come learn about it!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries. Only this is episode 407. I'm your host Thomas
0:21.5	Smith and we've got some physics for you again. Dr. Brian Gillis joining us for the
0:27.2	umpteenth time. Whatever number that is, it's not enough. Always love chatting
0:32.1	with Brian learning more about our universe. This time we're going to be talking
0:37.2	about entropy. I'm sure that's a term you've heard or maybe you know a bit
0:41.5	about. I thought not only have we never really just covered it straight up on
0:45.7	this show, I don't think, but also Brian is coming at it from an interesting
0:50.0	angle talking about entropy and information and computation and thinking. He was
0:55.8	actually inspired by the food episode about thinking, taking energy, burning
1:00.6	calories, wanted to come on and explain maybe in more fundamental terms why
1:06.4	that is, why that's necessarily true. And we can learn more about physics and
1:11.2	cool stuff like that along the way. So looking forward to that conversation
1:14.8	before we get there. Lydia and I would be absolutely honored if you supported
1:18.4	the show on patreon.com slash series pod. You'd get access to add free episodes
1:22.9	to the seriously awful movies. Oh, that should come out any moment. That one
1:27.5	was a lot of fun. Oh, I can't wait to get you that one. And that monthly
1:31.3	hangout of that has been a good time. Alright, we actually put out a poll for
1:35.8	everybody that monthly hangout by the way, that's for anyone in the top two
1:39.2	patron tiers for either show either series inquiries only or where there's
1:43.8	woke, which you should definitely check out. And we're putting out a poll to
1:47.4	see when people can make it because it's been so much fun. We want to make
1:51.3	sure everybody can make it next time. We've been playing a bit of code names
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