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The answer I've provided elsewhere in this thread is along the lines of: Other than melting icecubes and scrambling eggs, the only other difference you notice between the past and the future is that you can remember the past, but you cannot remember the future. If you could remember the future just as well as you remember the past, you probably wouldn't have strong opinions about which way time goes (or which direction is "clockwise"). If you, Merlin-like, could only remember the future then you'd probably be here asking why you always observe entropy decreasing in closed systems.

But memory operates on systems of increasing entropy, so you'll always only remember the past having less entropy. [1]

(Edit: citation)

[1] https://phys.org/news/2009-08-physicist-solution-arrow-of-ti...




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