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vs an arbitrary defined number of dimensions? Their are more exotic mechanisms to define entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parastatistics https://en.wikip

• dr_dshiv 6y ago
  In a thermodynamic sense, information input (say, of photons) is generally going to increase the entropy of a receiving system. Only certain kinds of information can reduce the entropy of the receiving system. Too much information (i.e., too many photons) can literally burn your eyes. I don't see how to square those manifest physical effects with the immateriality of Shannon information entropy.
  • wrnr 6y ago
    Is this not the problem of Maxwell's Daemon, if an intelligent agent observes and interferes with a particle system to reduce the system's entropy then overall entropy is still increasing because the agents needs to store and calculate information in some physical medium, be it brain matter of silicon.
    • dr_dshiv 6y ago
      Not exactly, I don't think. In the Shannon formulation, there isn't a notion of "too much information" -- it is all symbols. But in reality, too many photons can burn our eyes or a denial of service attack can break a website. Too much information is a reality --because we are thermodynamic entities. I don't see how to understand that with Shannon.
      • wrnr 6y ago
        Yeah right, and too much heat can burn my toast, forget about global warming it about universal warming, I don't understand that with Einstein either.