Why Information Grows

These tricks involve out-of-equilibrium systems, the accumulation of information in solids, and the ability of matter to compute. Together these three mechanisms contribute to the growth of information in small islands or (Location 220)

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. —ILYA PRIGOGINE (Location 562)

For Prigogine, the past is not just unreachable; it simply does not exist. There is no past, although there was a past. In our universe, there is no past, and no future, but only a present that is being calculated at every instant. This instantaneous nature of reality is deep because it helps us connect statistical physics with computation. (Location 791)