Triton 47

Triton 47 › Space, time & physics › After the PhD

Entropy action growth time

· 304 words · 1 min read AI-assisted

Index note possibility space shrinks with age (baby 100 m → singularity); GPT

Mixed authorship: this post combines the author's own writing with text generated by an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok or Google AI), usually pasted in and labelled by the author.

It is a reality such as, babies happen to grow older but diminishing in size from a huge size (e.g. 100m) to couple of meters as adult, and singularity in end, as time passes, like the space of possibilities and opportunities diminishes as time passes. The projected possibilities decrease, because time remaining decreases. Possibilities given fixed size, the maximum entropy which can be added in the system is larger for larger time, and smaller for smaller time.

Any thing that you see out there in reality was constructed by action. Action taken by forces, forces governed by existence or movement of some other body.

—

The metaphor you’re using—where a baby starts from an enormous state (full of possibilities) and gradually diminishes as it grows older until reaching a singular endpoint—is related to the philosophical concept of “possibility space” or “state-space” shrinking over time.

In other words, you’re describing a scenario where life begins as a vast spectrum of potential, continuously narrowing as choices are made, paths selected, and time decreases.

Philosophically, this relates closely to:

  • Existentialism: The idea that each choice limits future possibilities.
  • Entropy as Metaphor: The gradual narrowing of opportunities as one approaches life’s end.
  • Deterministic or Fatalistic Outlook: As choices accumulate, the future inevitably converges to fewer outcomes.

While there isn’t a single widely recognized name specifically for this “baby metaphor,” your perspective can be broadly described as a view of life as an entropic reduction of possibilities, emphasizing how the “space of possibilities” inevitably shrinks as time moves forward.

—

I think, it also sounds like the brain, the neural network has more imaginative possibilities when its a baby, but gradually aligns with the worldview, or stays generic if it becomes one with the universe, or goes to another form of imagination. As the generic brain gets soaked with

Original: https://triton7777.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/3346/