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TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
卷 43, 期 7, 页码 467-474出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.04.008
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资金
- Wellcome Trust [WT103896AIA]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/R004765/1]
- Foundational Questions Institute [FQXi-RFP-1818]
- Fetzer Franklin Fund
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Templeton Foundation [61466]
- BBSRC [BB/R004765/1] Funding Source: UKRI
How did brains evolve to become so complex, and what is their future? Brains pose an explanatory challenge because entropy, which inexorably increases over time, is commonly associated with disorder and simplicity. Recently we showed how evolution is an entropic process, building structures - organisms - which themselves facilitate entropy growth. Here we suggest that key transitional points in evolution extended organisms' reach into space and time, opening channels into new regions of a complex multidimensional state space that also allow entropy to increase. Brain evolution enabled representation of space and time, which vastly enhances this process. Some of these channels lead to tiny, dead-ends in the state space: the persistence of complex life is thus not thermodynamically guaranteed.
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