Poll: If information is yin what is the most natural and interesting yang to it?
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It's more basic than that. Entropy can be cast precisely as a measure of ignorance: more ignorance of the system means a higher entropy system. Granting information about the system (and thereby constraining its possible states) leads to a reduction in entropy.
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When we say "a system settles into a state of maximum entropy", this is completely equivalent to saying "a system ends up in a state for which our ignorance about it is maximal".
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