Episode
Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning
COMPLEXITY · Dec 11, 2020 · 1 h 02 min
Matter, energy, and information: the holy trinity of physics. Understanding the relations between these measures of our world are one of the big questions of complex systems science. The laws of thermodynamics tell us that entropy (loosely but somewhat inaccurately speaking, “disorder”) increases in any closed material system. But at the same time living systems constantly pump out entropy…