Computers not bound to Landauer's Principle
In the cited paper David Wolpert argues that human brains and computers are fundamentally different. Computer memories are not bound to Landauer's Principle but human memories are. Wolpert's version of the argument renders the computer/brain analogy both invalid and superfluous.
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The Arrow of Time  »The Arrow of Time 
The experience of time »The experience of time
Passage view components »Passage view components
Flow and direction of time? »Flow and direction of time?
Memory accretion hypothesis  »Memory accretion hypothesis 
Direction is that of memory accretion »Direction is that of memory accretion
Why aligned with thermodynamic arrow? »Why aligned with thermodynamic arrow?
Information theoretic explanation »Information theoretic explanation
Argument from computation »Argument from computation
Brain and computer memories analogous »Brain and computer memories analogous
Computers not bound to Landauer's Principle
Landauer's Principle »Landauer's Principle
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