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To: Doctor Stochastic

"Negative entropy" seems fine for the purpose. It has a clear meaning which is relevant to the phenomenon under consideration, and it's doubtful that anyone will read more into the expression than is intended.


445 posted on 01/04/2005 6:48:52 AM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry
...it's doubtful that anyone will read more into the expression than is intended.

Some people do like to sew a coat onto a button.

Negative entropy (informational, not thermodynamic) is just a measure of how many messages can be carried by a system. "Information" (in the sense of Prisoner Number Six) is an arbitrary. Messages may have any "meaning" although the number of these meanings is limited by the entropy.

446 posted on 01/04/2005 7:28:52 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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