negentropy

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(thermodynamics) The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system. [from 1950s]

(information theory) The difference between the entropy of a probability distribution and the maximum possible entropy of the same probability distribution.

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Both the uncertainty principle and the negentropy principle of information make Laplace's scheme [of exact determinism] completely unrealistic. The problem is an artificial one; it belongs to imaginative poetry, not to experimental science. Léon Brillouin

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