Energy, Entropy, Information, and Intelligence

2012/10/26 by Vladimir Cerny, Cerny, Vladimir
Physics and Astronomy · #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #physics.class-ph #physics.pop-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1210.7065

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arxiv created 2012/10/26 · arxiv updated 2012/10/29

Abstract

The paper presents a lightweight discussion of relations between energy, entropy, information, and intelligence, based on an analysis of the energy needed for computation.

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