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Negentropy?????

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03-05-2004 10:10 PM

Just a comment
As far as I understood the term 'negentropy' has nothing to do with entropy.
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The original Shannon 'entropy' of information has NOTHING to do with thermodynamic entropy.
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The story is John Von Neumann suggested Shannon use the term entropy because then no-one could challenge him on the definition since no-one understood entropy anyway.
  
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