They are not at all unrelated. It is not easy to grasp, so I understand the confusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.m.wiki

They are not at all unrelated. It is not easy to grasp, so I understand the confusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle Fun rabbit hole would start with classic paper by jaynes Many more recent examples relating bit erasure costs of computation. Some names to look up if interested include charlie Bennet,Dave wolpert, James crutchfield, Susanne still, for starters. Edit -- a collection of ideas related to this problem and mixing in "complexity" can be found in SFI proceedings called "Complexity, entropy, and the physics of information"