"The capacity for one form of work to produce the constraints that organize another, independent form of work is the source of the amplifying power of information. It affords a means to couple otherwise unrelated contragrade processes into highly complex and indirect chains. And because of the complementary roles of constraint and and energy-gradient reduction, it also provides the means for using the depletion of a small energy gradient to create constraints that are able to organize the depletion of a much larger energy gradient. In this way, information can serve as the bridge linking the properties of otherwise quite separate and unrelated material and energetic systems. ... This is why information, whether embodied in biological processes, engineering devices, or theoretical speculations, has so radically altered the causal fabric of the world we live in."

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