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Yeah, entropy definitely has been included in some forms of thought that are very correlated with complex systems. Schrodinger early on had a very interesting insight on life and entropy, people like Jeremy England are taking that view forward. Work by England, Crooks, etc. very beautifully relates entropy and the probability of any state x existing more than all others.

The information theory counterpart of entropy seems extremely relevant in describing coordination failures, some forms of stochasticness that aren't necessarily derived from lots of molecules with high degrees of freedoms interacting together. Also might hold high explanatory power in describing why trickle-down/bottom-up and top-down effects are slowly negated and diluted - although I believe this is fuzzy thinking and we need a better tool than just entropy to understand this.

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