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Originally Posted by Guille Conciousness (the mind, speaking broadly) is composed of psyquical events, whiles the universe (the cosmos, speaking broadly) is composed of physical events. Any rule underlying physical events does not apply to psyquical events, and vice versa. The increase of entropy (disorder) is rule for physical events. That is why consciousness can be in contradiction with the law of increase of entropy; that it isn't a psyquical rule. That is why if you take consciousness into account in the case of the bycicle, the rule of entropy will be broken for you are know in the realm of the psyquical-physical events scheme. |
Not if you consider consciousness to be nothing other than a collection of very complex physical interactions. In that case, you are never leaving the realm of physics. On an atomic level the same forces that make up your consciousness would also make up the bike, and so there would be no real difference. So now the use of energy to think up a bike is very little, and the energy saved when riding a bike compared to, say, walking the same distance is very great. So where is the net increase in useless energy released, as the second law of thermodynamics dictates?