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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
by 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 agoNot 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 agoYeah 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.