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by omeid2 896 days ago
> it's a decline in order.

That is another way of saying loss of information and increase of entropy.

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While the thermodynamic and the information theoretic concepts of entropy are related, it's not really applicable here. All the "real" information in the system is highly redundant (except perhaps neurological)-- we have billions of copies of the "information". The system's ability to restore itself to the order specified in the plan is lacking.