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As stated repeatedly, if a system exhibits organsation, it contains information. Since organisation reflects the ordered arrangement of the constituent parts of a system, and since order is in opposition to disorder, it stands to reason that information and disorder are inversely related: The more disordered the system, the less is its information content.
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Stonier, T. (1990). Information and Entropy: The Mathematical Relationship. In: Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3265-3_4
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