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These lectures, delivered at Brandeis University in July 1962, mark the end of an evolutionary phase in which, still misguided by the thinking of the past, I believed that the treatment of irreversible processes must be fundamentally different from equilibrium theory. But there is an advance in that the distinction between information entropy S I and experimental entropy S E , not yet clearly seen in the 1957 papers, is now recognized and stressed. Of course, this step was crucial for any rational discussion of irreversibility and the second law. The beginning of the next phase is recalled in ‘Where do we Stand?’ reprinted elsewhere in this volume.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1989). Brandeis Lectures (1963). In: Rosenkrantz, R.D. (eds) E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics. Synthese Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6581-2_4
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