Crecraft Harrison
Independent Researcher, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA.
Entropy (Basel). 2024 Dec 30;27(1):22. doi: 10.3390/e27010022.
Vopson and Lepadatu recently proposed the Second Law of Infodynamics. The law states that while the total entropy increases, information entropy declines over time. They state that the law has applications over a wide range of disciplines, but they leave many key questions unanswered. This article analyzes and reformulates the law based on thermocontextual interpretation (TCI). The TCI generalizes Hamiltonian mechanics by defining states and transitions thermocontextually with respect to an ambient-temperature reference state. The TCI partitions energy into exergy, which can do work on the ambient surroundings, and entropic energy with zero work potential. The TCI is further generalized here to account for a reference observer's actual knowledge. This enables partitioning exergy into accessible exergy, which is known and accessible for use, and configurational energy, which is knowable but unknown and inaccessible. The TCI is firmly based on empirically validated postulates. The Second Law of thermodynamics and its information-based analog, MaxEnt, are logically derived corollaries. Another corollary is a reformulated Second Law of Infodynamics. It states that an external agent seeks to increase its access to exergy by narrowing its information gap with a potential exergy source. The principle is key to the origin of self-replicating chemicals and life.
沃普森和莱帕达图最近提出了信息动力学第二定律。该定律指出，虽然总熵增加，但信息熵会随时间下降。他们表示该定律在广泛的学科领域都有应用，但留下了许多关键问题未得到解答。本文基于热语境解释（TCI）对该定律进行分析和重新阐述。TCI通过相对于环境温度参考状态热语境地定义状态和转变来推广哈密顿力学。TCI将能量划分为可用能，即能够对周围环境做功的能量，以及功势为零的熵能。在此进一步推广TCI以考虑参考观察者的实际知识。这使得可用能能够被划分为可及可用能，即已知且可用于使用的能量，以及构型能，即可知但未知且不可及的能量。TCI坚定地基于经过实证验证的假设。热力学第二定律及其基于信息的类似物最大熵原理是逻辑推导得出的推论。另一个推论是重新阐述的信息动力学第二定律。它指出外部主体试图通过缩小与潜在可用能源的信息差距来增加对可用能的获取。该原理是自我复制化学物质和生命起源的关键。
