Comment on Enzymes work as 'Maxwell's demon' by using memory stored as motion

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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The point of Maxwell’s demon is that there’s an intimate connection between thermodynamic entropy and information: increasing entropy reduces information, but adding information can reduce entropy.

I think what they’re getting at here is that the enzyme’s state preserves information about its recent past which it then uses to reduce entropy the way Maxwell’s demon does.

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