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These three concepts are closely related, which is the reason for us to carry out a more detailed examination in this chapter. Information and entropy have been subject to the considerations in the previous chapters and we noticed that we may roughly define information as organization and entropy as disorganization. Now this chapter adds the concept of self-organization, applied in biology and physics, which seems to present a contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. This contradiction stems from the following consideration: The non-living organisms on our earth disintegrate and thus they tend towards the Equilibrium State, the so-called ‘heat death’.
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Arndt, C. (2001). Concluding remarks. In: Information Measures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56669-1_17
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