Entropy Again

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

David Pelovitzes:

>                                     In Norbert Wiener's _The Human Use
> of Human Beings_(which was one of TRP's major sources) wrote:

Really? Source?
 
> "The transfer of information cannot take place without a 
> certain minimum transfer of energy, so that there is no
> sharp boundary between energetic coupling and informational
> coupling.  Nevertheless, for most practical purposes, a light
> quantum is a very small thing; and the amount of energy 
> transfer which is necessary for an effective informational
> coupling is quite small.  It follows that in considering
> such a local process as the growth of a tree or of a 
> human being, which depends directly or indirectly on
> radiation from the sun, an enormous local decrease in
> entropy may be associated with a quite moderate energy
> transfer." 

Why do people still insist on equating thermodynamic entropy and 
information entropy? The two have absolutely nothing to do with one 
another! It is this type of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo which has 
ruined many a earnest engagement with TRP.

hg
hag at iafrica.com