Strong evidence of an information-theoretical conservation principle linking all discrete systems.

ABSTRACT: Diverse discrete systems share common global properties that lack a unifying theoretical explanation. However, constraining the simplest measure of total information (Hartley-Shannon) in a statistical mechanics framework reveals a principle, the conservation of Hartley-Shannon information (CoHSI) that directly predicts both known and unsuspected common properties of discrete systems, as borne out in the diverse systems of computer software, proteins and music. Discrete systems fall into two categories distinguished by their structure: heterogeneous systems in which there is a distinguishable order of assembly of the system's components from an alphabet of unique tokens (e.g. proteins assembled from an alphabet of amino acids), and homogeneous systems in which unique tokens ar

SUBMITTER: Hatton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837184 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature