Religious movements and cults are often founded on a tetrad of elements: a prophet, a prophecy, a book, and a revelation.

We have all felt queasy (at best) when the wind and tide are battling it out in a hoolie and got cold, wet and miserable.

However, apart from Windham and Fitzwilliam (and also the King, whose views hardly counted any more), no one in Government had any relish left for an ideological war à outrance.

Brillouin (1956) made an attempt to link thermodynamic notions to the notions of information theory. To this end he employs the idea of bound information or information consistent with some microstates of a physical system. […] Brillouin has shown that bound information is equal to entropy decrease or negentropy increase. This is a so called negentropy principle of information, according to which negentropy can be turned into information and vice versa as follows from (1.103).