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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ENTROPY BILL If parameter (x) thermalizes reversibly: Ansatz: ENTROPY BILL Overall we get: Szilard’s Universal Law: The entropy of erasure Landauer (1961) and Bennet (1982): A measurement is essentially copying Computation can be made reversible Erasing memory means compressing the phase space of possible physical states, inevitably heating up the environment Szilard’s third machine Szilard’s third machine Szilard’s third machine Szilard’s third machine Szilard’s third machine ENTROPY BILL ENTROPY BILL Summary Simple demons fail