Speaker
Prof.
Luca Peliti
(University "Federico II", Naples)
Description
The connection between the information value of a message
and capital gain was made by Kelly in 1956. In 1965 Kimura
tried to evaluate the rate of information intake by a
population undergoing Darwinian evolution by equating it
with the substitutional load. Recently, the analogy between
Kelly's scheme and work extraction was pointed out in the
context of stochastic thermodynamics. I shall try to connect
these threads, highlighting analogies and differences
between the meaning of information and its value in the
different contexts.
