Contributions to Books:
V. Bühlmann:
"Maxwell's Demon (Non-Anthropocentric Cognition)";
in: "Posthuman Glossary",
R. Braidotti, M. Hlavajova (ed.);
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017,
ISBN: 978-1-350-03024-4,
247
- 251.
English abstract:
"In this entry, I would like to discuss one of the key moments of reference in twentieth century information science, which arose from thermodynamics and which in fact links the latter to the former in many important aspects. Maxwell´s famous thought experiment explores how to think of heat, if we can conceive of it neither as a force nor in (metaphysical) substantial terms (see Negentropy). .."
German abstract:
"In this entry, I would like to discuss one of the key moments of reference in twentieth century information science, which arose from thermodynamics and which in fact links the latter to the former in many important aspects. Maxwell´s famous thought experiment explores how to think of heat, if we can conceive of it neither as a force nor in (metaphysical) substantial terms (see Negentropy). .."
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