The multifaceted nature of information, with the concept appearing in different guises in a variety of domains, from the physical to the social, has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years, with the emergence of a range of unifying theories of information. In this short post, I mention some publications on the topic… Continue reading Four (and more) faces of information
Tag: thermodynamics
Entropy. How little we (still) know,
Entropy, and its complex and subtle relations with information, has been an interest of mine for a long while, a paper on the subject being updated by posts on this blog. Since the last blog post, a number of interesting ideas have been put forward. The first is not really new, having been made available… Continue reading Entropy. How little we (still) know,
The weight of information
The status of the concept of information in the physical world, and in particular its relation to entropy, continues to attract discussion and controversy. A relation between information and physical entropy, and hence energy, was first shown by Leo Szilard, while Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett later showed that erasing information has an inescapable energy… Continue reading The weight of information
