A biologically based information theory would ... require a definition of information which is compatible with the idea of information addition in going between levels of organization, as discussed earlier in this essay, and perhaps a definition which is independent of a known catalogue of possible states, since it is uncertain whether such a catalogue is a priori enumerable for biological systems.
For physics, seeBoltzmann/Shannon - Entropy is "missing" information:
The Black Hole Problem ... "information loss" in physics
(the origin in the 1990's of the interest of physicists in information)
Black Hole Evaporation and Information Loss, Daniel Gottesman, 1997
Information loss, Gabor Kunstatter, 1999
Information loss, Gabor Kunstatter, 2002
The Information Paradox (reversibility), student page, 1998
Physical Laws Collide in a Black Hole Bet, George Johnson, NYTimes, 1998
Black Holes and the Information Paradox, Leonard Susskind, Sci Am, the Edge of Physics, 2003
Information Paradox Solved? If So, Black Holes Are Fuzzballs, SpaceDaily, 4 March 2004
Computation CAN be done reversibly, without energy cost
Bottom line:
Reversibility not a characteristic of transformations of "non-random organizations of matter/energy"?
Creation of "new" forms is?
How get irreversible outcomes from locally reversible processes?
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