How to Conceptual Engineer 'Entropy'and 'Information'

J Anta - Erkenntnis, 2025 - Springer
In this paper I discuss how to conceptual engineer 'entropy'and 'information'as they are used
in information theory and statistical mechanics. Initially, I evaluate the extent to which the all …

Microscopic and macroscopic interpretations of the entropy within the framework of quantum mechanics: Quantum computer, coulomb crystal, chaos, and cosmology

I Jendoubi, E Essefi - Advances in the Modelling of Thermodynamic …, 2022 - igi-global.com
The objective of this work was to microscopically and macroscopically interpret entropy
within the framework of quantum mechanics: quantum computer, Coulomb crystal, chaos …

Can information concepts have physical content?

J Anta - Perspectives on Science, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
In this paper I analyze the physical content of the main information concepts in the history of
physics of the last seven decades. I argue that this physical character should be evaluated …

Rethinking the Intellectual Genesis of Landauer's Principle

J Anta, C Hoefer - A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and …, 2024 - Springer
Our main aim in this paper is to evaluate from a critical historical-philosophical standpoint
the intellectual origins of 'Landauer's principle', a thesis formulated in 1961 by the IBM …

Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Information Physics

A Javier - 2021 - philpapers.org
The main objective of this dissertation is to philosophically assess how the use of
informational concepts in the field of classical thermostatistical physics has historically …

It is hardly to be expected that a single concept of information would satisfactorily account for the numerous possible applications of this general field.

C Shannon, R Capurro, B Hjørland, M Burgin… - cambridge.org
Information is in everything. It has become the foremost concept in biology, physics,
economics, engineering, philosophy, decision-making, methodology of science, artificial …

Historical and conceptual foundations of information physics

J Anta Pulido - 2021 - diposit.ub.edu
[eng] The main objective of this dissertation is to philosophically assess how the use of
informational concepts in the field of classical thermostatistical physics has historically …

[PDF][PDF] Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Information Physics

JA Pulido - 2021 - core.ac.uk
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, certain concepts acquired an
indisputable prominence within modern physics, like 'quarks','black holes', or 'strings' …