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As was mentioned by Nicolas Lori in his (Found Sci, 2010) commentary, the definition of Information in Physics is something about which not all authors agreed. According to physicists like me Information decreases when Entropy increases (so entropy would be a negative measure of information), while many physicists, seemingly the majority of them, are convinced of the contrary (even in the camp of Quantum Information Theoreticians). In this reply I reproduce, and make more precise, some of my arguments, that appeared here and there in my (2010) paper, in order to clarify the presentation of my personal point of view on the subject.
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Durt T. (2010) Anthropomorphic quantum darwinism as an explanation for classicality. Foundations of Science 15(2–3): 177–197. doi:10.1007/s10699-010-9173-z arXiv:0912.5508v2
Lori, N. (2010). On definitions of information in physics. Foundations of Science. doi:10.1007/s10699-010-9205-8. arXiv:0912.5508v2.
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Durt, T. Competing Definitions of Information Versus Entropy in Physics. Found Sci 16, 315–318 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-010-9206-7
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