Energy is actually a red herring -- what's relevant here is work. Useful work, aka information, is work that can be employed in dynamics vis a vis processing.

Energy is actually a red herring -- what's relevant here is work. Useful work, aka information, is work that can be employed in dynamics vis a vis processing. Useless work, aka heat, is the devil's share of the energy expenditure which is lost as entropy when undergoing a process.