among the innumerable small systems S that exist in this extraordinarily vast universe where we happen to live, there will be a few special ones for which the fluctuations of the entropy happen to be such that at one of the two ends of the flow of thermal time entropy happens to be low. For these systems S, the fluctuation is not symmetrical: entropy increases. This growth is what we experience as the flowing of time. What is special is not the state of the early universe: it is the small system S to which we belong.
