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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Leigh Palmer wrote:
That won't wash. The entropy of a system does not depend one tiny bit
on "the INFORMATION we have about" it! If you believe that it does,
I would have expected the writer was using a little verbal shorthand here
for saying that information theory provides the tools for a clear
understanding of the meaning of entropy.
Students hear it and quite justifiably think
that physicists believe in magic.
Much like telling students that the quantum state of a system depends on
our observation of it. ;-)