ABSTRACT
I have argued for the reality of a second law of infodynamics as a generalization of the second law of thermodynamics (Salthe, 1993). This generalization from the physical law, made by many others previously, is based in Boltzmann's interpretation of entropy as disorder. Disorder is more general than physical heat, and can be applied even to linguistic phenomena. From this point of view heat is seen as energy configurations unavailable for use because they are scattered or dispersed away from the configuration of a palpable gradient at the scale of the system in question. Such a gradient is, from the point of view of a system that can degrade it, orderly.
