Entropy and cycle
“Entropy” is a concept that measures a randomness of information. In nature world, entropy in a system increases with time. We need a effort to resist for this natural order.
It seems the entropy is unavoidable matter on information management. Yukio Noguchi, known by the Noguchi filing system, argued about it at the end part of his book.
In the PoIC, a number of information increases rapidly with time. Because a unit of information is small 5×3 card. Also the PoIC adopt simple chronological order without revision of system. It is natural for me to be sensitive about entropy.
So now, I see entropy everywhere : Four seasons, life, genetic inheritance, stock market, and revolution. I understand every cycle is to avoid runaway inflation of entropy. When time has come, when entropy is at it’s maximum, a regulator comes. Winter, death, meiosis, invisible hand, and revolutionist. They are all to reduce entropy in a system. A nature uses really tricky way.
A philosopher said, “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” The owl is, as you know, a metaphor of a knowledge. In the PoIC the regulator is not a death of the system, but the owl, a new knowledge. The owl will comes after inflation of index cards in a dock. And it seems natural cycle in generation process.
