Oh, but they do. Sure, the SLoT says that mutations will happen, but the result is a loss of information. So both Shannon's theory AND the SLoT combined give us the certainty that all mutations enter at the transmission phase of information passing from one generation to the next.
Would you deny that? Are you saying that mutations don't happen, or if they do happen that they aren't entering at the transmission phase? Which is it?
The clue is in the name Second Law of
Thermodynamics is that it is to do with heat,
not information. The SLoT
does not apply generally to information theory. There is
no equivalent, in thermodynamics, of Shannon's Noisy Channel Theorem: thermodynamics can be considered a sub-class of information theory, but laws of thermodynamics do not propogate upwards to all information theory applications.
Entropy in communication is different from entropy in physics despite the video I posted earlier saying otherwise. So which are you talking about?
Then why do you keep conflating them and assume that laws of thermodynamics apply to information?
Yes, I'd agree that since entropy is hard to define that Common Descentists love to use the word since it muddies the waters.
You have that completely reversed: I've been telling you that you are equivocating for weeks over the term entropy, but you keep bringing it up.
But in common parlance entropy is why ice will melt in a cup of water. Even though entropy is really the measure of the changed states of the glass over time, we say entropy is why the ice melts. Sure, that isn't technically accurate. But if you have a better word to use, then please do tell. Go ahead, substitute a single word in place of where "entropy" is normally used: Ice melts in a glass of water because of ______.
.. because of being heated above its melting point so average kinetic energy of the particles approach or exceed the bond energies.
Don't like that one? Try this one: A frying pan cools when it's taken off the stove because of ______.
.. because of the temperature difference between it and its surroundings, along with gravity and the expansion of gases as they are heated, sets up a convection current which carries away hot air.
Now, you might want to put "the second law of thermodynamics" in that spot,
Nope. That Law is not about a process that can get thigs done, but it places restrictions on changes in state variables.
but even
Prof. Lambert says, "Because entropy is an index of the second law's predictions about energy, the short word entropy is often used interchangeably for the cumbersome phrase, "the second law of thermodynamics"." So feel free to do that if you like. Would you like to do that?
The second Law is inappropriate for describing the causes of events, so I wouldn't use that term in the situations you set up.
I can, with 100% accuracy predict that GCT will not provide us with a better word to use because of 2 things. The first is what I already pointed out; that CDists never like things to be clear. The second is that there is not better term.
You equivocate endlessly, so are you ready to answer MY questions, for the avoidance of you appearing to muddy the water again?
- Do you agree with Shannon's Noisy Channel Coding Theorem (Shannon's Theorem) that communication can be managed with arbitrarily small data losses, unlike thermodynamic systems and their entropy rises?
- Are you aware that most mutations don't increase the information entropy, since information entropy is simply a measure of how much information is needed for coding and not a measure of meaning or usefulness?
