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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Metric for the Entropic Purpose of a System.

Michael C Parker, Chris Jeynes, Stuart D Walker

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Entropy Is Not Extensive.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Review
  2. Unitary Entities Are the True "Atoms".Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael C ParkerSchool of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7600-4356
Chris JeynesIndependent Researcher, Tredegar NP22 4LP, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6404-8957
Stuart D WalkerSchool of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7710-9846

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/W03560X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose in systems is considered to be beyond the purview of science since it is thought to be intrinsically personal. However, just as Claude Shannon was able to define an impersonal measure of information, so we formally define the (impersonal) '

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drug discoveryentropyinformation theorymaximum entropyorigin of lifeteleonomy

Identifiers

PMID40003129
PMCPMC11854410

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