Episode 6.34: Internal change without external change; separation and making our own meaning.

How can the inside of an isolated system change despite the fact that from an outside perspective nothing changes? We think about this from the point of view of energy and of how it’s possible for there to be an exchange of energy between parts of a system even though the system as a whole has no change of energy. We think about the universe and how even if it does not change by receiving anything from outside or emitting anything to the outside because as one might say it doesn’t have an “outside”, it can nevertheless support life inside which involves separating significant from insignificant events. How is that possible?