Nice post, Bob. I agree pretty much. Brooks and
Wiley got slammed by Morowitz for using the
*Real* energy in their book, which being about
biology is the only sensible notion of energy.
There is still a need for a clear dimensional
analysis of the relation(s) between information
and energy.
Bob wrote:
Recall that some thermodynamic variables, especially work functions like
Helmholz Gibbs free energies and exergy all are tightly related to
information measures. In statistical mechanical analogs, for example, the
exergy becomes RT times the mutual information among the molecules
S:
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for comments and remarks.
Many thanks to Mark for his interesting post.
Really, the correspondence between energy and information is fundamental and
needs to be clearly explained.
I want to present my point of view because it is different from other ones.
It is
Dear Krassimir et al.,
I like your view very much with one exception. I think it confounds
information with meaning, which I think can lead to problems. For example, I
could give two people the same message written on your identical pieces of
paper. It is written in English, but only one of
