Entropy à la EPT

Entropy is - most encompassingly philosophically thought - the degree of
compression of energy and information.


In the special (artificially transplanted) case of what it takes to "machine
code" (or by a higher level computer language) "inform" a computer how to do
work, and in the case of a genomic (and possibly epigenetic) code that in
ontogeny naturally instructs the building of living forms) the length of the
instructing code(s) required to achieve a given set of functional patterns
is inversely proportional to the degree of "instructive entropy".

I don't know exactly how a small number of super smart physicists think they
might have resolved the conflict between the "thermodynamic type"
interpretation of entropy and the "information theoretical type"
interpretation of the same concept;
However, Stephen Hawking has declared he was wrong about, and has LOST his
bet (with Bekenstein) on, that information 'about' what falls into a Black
Hole is lost.

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