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To maintain order and structure in an evolving system requires the continual supply and use of energy whose by-product is disorder.

Geoffrey West • Scale

In accord with these observations, and mindful of our intended future development of this topic, we further expand the B.I. T. to read as follows: IN A CLOSED SYSTEM, INFORMATION TENDS TO DECREASE AND HALLUCINATION TENDS TO INCREASE

John Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine

Zack Savitsky quantamagazine.org

Recent conversations with Emmett Shear on the principle of maximum entropy make me suspect that this is a stronger statement than I initially thought, and may be some sort of emergent consequence of thermodynamics. Or maybe it can be considered a corollary of my buddy Abraham Thomas’s principle that to call macro-trends correctly you have to have “... See more

Venkatesh Rao • Low Roads to High Places

dissipative fitness, or how well an adaptive system can stay far from equilibrium by extracting free energy.

Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity

However, all energy conversions eventually result in dissipated low-temperature heat: no energy has been lost, but its utility, its ability to perform useful work, is gone (the second law of thermodynamics).31

Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works

Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy: “Information is closely associated with uncertainty.” Uncertainty, in turn, can be measured by counting the number of possible messages. If only one message is possible, there is no uncertainty and thus no information. Some messages may be likelier than others, and information implies s