Is entropy relevant to the asymmetry between retrodiction and prediction?
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (2):141-160 (1992)
| Abstract | The idea that the changing entropy of a system is relevant to explaining why we know more about the system's past than about its future has been criticized on several fronts. This paper assesses the criticisms and clarifies the epistemology of the inference problem. It deploys a Markov process model to investigate the relationship between entropy and temporally asymmetric inference | |||||||||
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