Quote: under entropy, macroscopic information is converted into microscopic information (i.e., the location of molecules)

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If we examine the distribution of the [probability] fluid on a finer scale, however, we can discover where … [in phase space] contains an equal volume of fluid and the total volume … [since the motions of the perfume molecules are completely determined], then within each cell the probability fluid must occupy only … The macroscopic information present in the initial state … [i.e., the perfume is in the bottle] has not …   Google-1   Google-2

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