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It's a bit like saying Maxwell equations are not as clear as Newton's laws.



“entropy is an anthropomorphic concept, not only in the well-known statistical sense that it measures the extent of human ignorance as to the microstate. Even at the purely phenomenological level, entropy is an anthropomorphic concept. For it is a property, not of the physical system, but of the particular experiments you or I choose to perform on it.”

http://www.lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/trizac/Ens/M2MQPL/Jaynes_...




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