AMA | September 2024

3303.638 - 3329.295 Sean Carroll

But if you have a dissipative system, if you have an open system that is not the entire closed, isolated universe, then you can have attractors and you see attractors all the time. So there can be tiny subspaces of the whole state space of the system, which are unlikely to be chosen if you just choose something randomly, but can be very likely to be an ultimate destination of the evolution.