There is an energy cost to irreversibly read-write any information in a physical medium



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Landauer 1961Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process
Bennett 2003Notes on Landauer’s principle, reversible computation, and Maxwell’s Demon.
Evans 2003A non-equilibrium free energy theorem for deterministic systems
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The Free-Energy Principle Self-evidencing is existing Self-evidencing systems resist dissipation


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