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Entropy
This article explains the meaning of the notion of entropy and its implications for the understanding of the Anthropocene epoch. Although the notion...
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Discovering Maximum Entropy Knowledge
This paper seeks to determine a rational agent’s evidential constraints given her beliefs. Rationality is here construed as adherence to a principle...
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The Neganthropocene Revisited: Entropy, World, Earth
This chapter continues to question the Neganthropocene. It specifically revisits issues regarding the entropy of a system. Bataille’s ‘accursed...
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Determining Maximal Entropy Functions for Objective Bayesian Inductive Logic
According to the objective Bayesian approach to inductive logic, premisses inductively entail a conclusion just when every probability function with...
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Entropy, prediction and the cultural ecosystem of human cognition
Major proponents of both Distributed Cognition and Predictive Processing have argued that the two theoretical frameworks are strongly compatible. An...
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Black Hole Entropy and the Holographic Universe
My theoretical interpretation of information theory (Chap. 3 ) and the properties of the QMO (Chap....
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Is the maximum entropy production just a heuristic principle? Metaphysics on natural determination
The Maximum Entropy Production Principle (MEPP) stands out as an overarching principle that rules life phenomena in Nature. However, its explanatory...
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Understanding entropy
A new way of understanding entropy as a macroscopic property is presented. This is based on the fact that heat flows from a hot body to a cold one...
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Entropy as the main justification for research in medical ethics
Ethics is an unconventional field of research for a surgeon, as ethics in surgery owns several specificities and surgery is considered an aggressive...
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Logical Entropy
This book presents a new foundation for information theory where the notion of information is defined in terms of distinctions, differences,...
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The Relationship Between Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy
This chapter is focused on develo** the basic notion of Shannon entropy, its interpretation in terms of distinctions, i.e., the minimum average...
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Further Developments of Logical Entropy
This chapter develops the multivariate (i.e., three or more variables) entropies. The Shannon mutual information is negative in the standard...
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Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth–twentieth centuries
After the birth of thermodynamics’ second principle—outlined in Carnot's Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824)—several studies provided...
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Information vs. entropy vs. probability
Information, entropy, probability: these three terms are closely interconnected in the prevalent understanding of statistical mechanics, both when...
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Ethics of Knowledge, Value Entropy and Terrorism
Reflections on theories of Reality, knowledge and conduct are seminal contributions of Jainism. All the three are interrelated and constitute an...
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Connecting De Donder’s equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials
The new mathematical connection of De Donder’s differential entropy production with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials (Helmholtz...
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Considerations About Physical and Biological Time
The second part of this book deals with biological times and rhythms, interpreted from the relational point of view. The concept of entropy is...
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Education in the Neganthropocene: A Pharmacological Search
This chapter reviews Bernard Stiegler’s concept of the Neganthropocene and his pharmacological approach. I look at some of the reviews of this...
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How to explain the direction of time
Reichenbach explains temporally asymmetric phenomena by appeal to entropy and ‘branch structure’. He explains why the entropic gradients of isolated...