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> Entropy is a measure of the number of possible micro states for a given system, and that number exists independently of us.

That number also exists independently of the system! I can imagine any system and calculate the corresponding number.

(And for an even more philosophical question, does the “system” really exist independently of us? What separates the “system” from anything else? Is every subset of the universe a “system”?)



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