[Cdn-DMCA] Creators Connecting

[Tom Trottier]

In fact entropy is disorder - the opposite of information

On Sunday, April 14, 2002 at 22:20, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca <canada-
dmca-opponents at flora.org>
wrote re "Re: [Cdn-DMCA] Creators Connecting" saying:

> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> > > "information" to be the same thing, and thermodynamics requires that
> > > entropy can be created but never destroyed.
> > 
> >   I think if we use too many scientific terms we might be seen to exclude
> > too many people from the discussion.  The same complaint has been made 
> 
> Actually, my larger worry is that the claim "entropy cannot be destroyed,
> information = entropy, therefore information such as computer files
> cannot be destroyed", isn't literally true - it's an abuse of the
> scientific terms.  
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