That tells us the direction of spontaneous change for ordinary processes, chemical processes, mixing and you name it, under conditions that are easy to achieve in the lab.

这个物理量告诉我们在实验室,能够实现的条件下通常的过程，化学过程，混合以及你所能想到的过程，自发进行的方向。

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Or we could talk about the various kinds of ways-- this is the physicalist way of thinking about it-- according to the physicalist, a person is just a body that has the ability to fulfill the various P functions.

或者我们还可以探讨更多的表达方式,但以下是物理主义的观点,物理主义认为,人只是,一具拥有实现各种P能力的肉体

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