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		Robotbeat 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Computation as a universal and fundamental concept I’m aware of the von Neumann joke. There is, however, a direct equivalence between them derived from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
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jibal 7 days ago [–]

Um, only the second part was a joke. The first part was confirmation of your statement that it's not just an analogy or coincidence ... and Shannon followed von Neumann's advice (not joke).

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