Consciousness of the irreversible direction of time

People who have made errors in their past are acutely aware that the past cannot be relived. Those who are mature are conscious that their youth cannot be brought back. The entire world races against the clock to get done what it can before time passes. Physicists (based on Einstein) sometimes assert, while noting its implications for psychology, that time is irreversible at the fundamental, quantum level of elementary atomic processes and that this irreversible, progressive arrow of time is associated with the constant increase in entropy.

If entropy (that is, energy-release with loss of order and information) is universally progressive consciousness may be said (according to information theory) to suffer diminution or dilution of content. Thus, at various levels of consciousness, loss may be progressively initiated. For example, if progressive loss of information content begins at the level of biological time, specific instincts, biorhythms, and internal clocks (control activities) are lost. If this entropy of consciousness progresses to the subconscious level memory may be lost, along with control or master elements consisting of information structures (archetypes, patterns, clusters, etc), which also include language. At the conscious level, entropy loss would affect cognition and recognition. Sensation would lose its meaning and one would be unaware.

The emptying out of time and information from the instincts, the subconscious, and the consciousness seems to have the same effects as mystical concentration and yoga practices. These attempts at human development through attainment of altered states of consciousness and ego emptying seem to accelerate entropy and hasten time as they concurrently release energy.