Information Is Not a Substance: From Maxwell's Demon to an Energy Interpretation of Information Thermodynamics

Key Points

• The aim is to explore the relationship between information and energy distribution through the lens of Energy-Efficiency Theory.
• Proposing a conceptual framework embedding Maxwell's demon into the Energy-Efficiency Cycle.
• Analyzing measurement time constraints and memory maintenance costs through EET's axioms.
• Unifying various forms of information as hierarchical energy constraints.
• Demonstrated that measurement time constraints and erasure irreversibility uphold from EET principles.
• Proposed unification of physical, functional, and semantic information under energy constraints.
• Outlined quantifiable paths for future experimentation.

Abstract