Probability as a Physical Motive

Entropy

关键词: Entropy;    probability;    second law;    physical law;    spatial order;    evolution;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e9020042

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【 摘 要 】

Recent theoretical progress in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, linking the physical principle of Maximum Entropy Production (“MEP”) to the information-theoretical “MaxEnt” principle of scientific inference, together with conjectures from theoretical physics that there may be no fundamental causal laws but only probabilities for physical processes, and from evolutionary theory that biological systems expand “the adjacent possible” as rapidly as possible, all lend credence to the proposition that probability should be recognized as a fundamental physical motive. It is further proposed that spatial order and temporal order are two aspects of the same thing, and that this is the essence of the second law of thermodynamics.

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