Episode
David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
COMPLEXITY · Oct 21, 2022 · 1 h 06 min
Communication is a physical process. It’s common sense that sending and receiving intelligible messages takes work…but how much work? The question of the relationship between energy, information, and matter is one of the deepest known to science. There appear to be limits to the rate at which communication between two systems can happen…but the search for a fundamental relationship between…