A Universal Origin of Information Accumulation in Nature

TL;DR

This paper proposes a universal mechanism based on competition and selection that explains how information accumulates in nature, from simple atoms to complex systems, despite the second law of thermodynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a universal framework for understanding information accumulation across all levels of natural complexity, supported by evidence from simple composite entities.

Findings

Atoms and molecules exhibit information accumulation.

The proposed mechanism applies universally across natural systems.

Supports the idea that information growth is compatible with entropy increase.

Abstract

To account for the origin of information accumulation in nature despite the entropy-increase law, we advocate a universal mechanism due to competition/selection of general composite entities, from simple to complex. To confirm its universality, we show that even simplest composites such as an atom, a molecule etc. are subject to this mechanism and accumulate information.