Side Comments: Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?

[Patrick]

@Argon

Thermodynamics and ‘information theory’ display many similar features but if you burn a deck of cards that is sorted by suit & rank and compare the heat output to a randomly shuffled deck made of the same materials, you’re not going to measure a difference.

You will not measure a difference in entropy in burning a deck of cards in any order because the information content is the same regardless of the order of the cards.