Citations:negentropy

English citations of negentropy

• 1976, Kenneth M. Sayre, “Entropy”, in Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method), Atlantic Heights, N.J.: Humanities Press, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2015, →ISBN, part 2 (Fundamentals), page 45:

  The outcome of this experiment [Maxwell's demon] has been a proof that the increase in structure (negentropy) represented by the molecules' nonrandom distribution must be less on the average than the amount of energy (negentropy) necessary to convey information discriminating their individual motions […] It will be well enough if we remember this one lesson from [James Clerk] Maxwell's fanciful thought-experiment: where there is a transaction converting negentropy from either information or energy to the other form, entropy tends to increase as a result of the process.

• 1977, William Krehm, “Entropy – Fine Tuning for the Heat Death”, in Babel’s Tower: The Dynamics of Economic Breakdown, Toronto, Ont.: Thornwood Publications, →ISBN, page 49:

  We can define economic negentropy as the potential difference needed to assure the means and motivations for the functioning of a subsystem. […] In physics differences of energy levels can take on many forms – chemical, thermal, nuclear, hydraulic, electromagnetic, gravitational, and so forth. Any of these may be tapped to reverse the energy flow in another entropy system. An entropy system may thus be enlarged, but never really reversed. Viewed as a unit, the systems joined run down, not up. There is no way of bootlegging negentropy.

• 1990, A[leksandr] I[l’ich] Zotin, “Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes”, in Thermodynamic Bases of Biological Processes: Physiological Reactions and Adaptations, Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, section 1.3.2 (Maxwell’s Demon and Negentropy Effects), page 46:

  [Léon] Brillouin (1956) made an attempt to link thermodynamic notions to the notions of information theory. To this end he employs the idea of bound information or information consistent with some microstates of a physical system. […] Brillouin has shown that bound information is equal to entropy decrease or negentropy increase. This is a so called negentropy principle of information, according to which negentropy can be turned into information and vice versa […]

• 2018, George Gilder, “Some Terms of Art and Information for Life after Google”, in Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, →ISBN:

  The logarithms of probabilities between one and zero are always negative quantities; entropy is rendered positive by a minus sign in front of this sum. This minus sign prompted some eminent theorists to blunder into the idea of negentropy, which is an oxymoron—more than 100 percent probability.

• 2018, Heidi C[athryn] M[olly] Scott, “Renewables: The Elements Move”, in Fuel: An Ecocritical History (Environmental Cultures), London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 3 (Primary Energy), pages 269–270:

  One short story by Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question" (1956), gives solar power a starring role in a secular, techno-Genesis. […] All data has been collected and all possible combinations have been considered, and finally the computer discovers negentropy—the reversal of thermodynamic decay.