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AMA | March 2024

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Exploring the Concept of Entropy and Information

The chapter delves into the concept of entropy and information in systems, contrasting perspectives on the nature of information and its relevance in biological contexts. It discusses incompressible information for biological purposes, mutual information between systems, and the role of information metrics in physics and statistical mechanics.

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