In "Order Out of Chaos" by Prigogine and Stengers,
they attribute the understanding of entropy ENTROPY
that I picked up from reading Bateson to Boltzman
According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy (a measure of disorder or chaos) of an isolated system (one that does not exchange matter, energy, or information with its environment) will remain unchanged for reversible processes but will increase for irreversible processes
This article decries the use of "disorder" in teaching beginning students about thermodynamic entropy.? It is cautionary rather than proscriptive about "disorder" being used warily as a device for assessing entropy change in advanced work or among professionals.1
The reactions and questions received on my articles "Vortex - The natural movement" and "Understanding Water Power" show that there is much interest in the subject of thermodynamics