By analyzing brain scans of people asleep and awake, researchers found that the amount of entropy our brains generate changes with consciousness.
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February 8, 2023
Electrical signals in our brain generate entropy as part of information processing Shutterstock/Golodenkov
Our brains generate more entropy when we are awake than when we are asleep. The findings could lead to better ways to measure consciousness in people in a coma.
Entropy is a measure of chaos, and in our universe it tends to change over time from less chaotic to chaotic. For example, breaking a coffee cup increases entropy. This breakage can occur in a number of ways, but a broken cup never spontaneously rebuilds and reduces…
