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Casual and handwavy, but these two ideas might be worth thinking about. Maxwell's demon is a good bridge. If you have perfect information you can reverse entro
by jfoutz 12y ago
Casual and handwavy, but these two ideas might be worth thinking about.
Maxwell's demon is a good bridge. If you have perfect information you can reverse entropy.
Another way to connect the two is to look at the edge case - when the universe is just a uniform heat - it won't take much information to describe. Yup, same temperature everywhere.
- hackinthebochs 12y ago>when the universe is just a uniform heat - it won't take much information to describe. Actually this is when it takes maximum information to describe, as no particle is correlated with any other (and thus no savings from encoding). You basically have to fully describe each particle individually as a point in space. The alternate extreme is where matter is maximally compact and thus maximally correlated.
- lomnakkus 12y ago(Not the PP, but...) That's a great way of putting it. Maximum entropy means minimal intrinsic information (and thus you need a lot of external information) and vice versa. I've never thought of it that way, thanks!