Your brain generates more entropy while you’re awake

By analyzing mind scans of people who find themselves asleep and awake, researchers have discovered that the quantity of entropy our mind produces varies with consciousness.

With Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Our mind produces extra entropy once we are awake than once we are asleep. The discovering might result in higher methods to measure the consciousness of individuals in a coma.

Entropy is a measure of dysfunction, and all the things in our universe tends to maneuver from much less dysfunction to extra dysfunction over time. For instance, breaking a espresso cup will increase entropy. Though this breaking can occur in some ways, you’ll by no means see a damaged glass spontaneously reassemble and thus lower…