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Query: The Thinking machine: a psychological view of Mawxwell's demon mind   Recently, in a letter to Nature, del Rio et al.8 exploited the quantum
viewpoint of the old but well-known thought experiment of Maxwell's demon, a
tiny "man-machine" that processes only a single unit of information. In their
work, they showed that the thermodynamic cost for Maxwell's demon to erase
quantum information decreases as the amount it "knows" increases. Indeed, as
the authors themselves concluded, that finding has the ability to strengthen
the link between information theory and statistical physics. However, the
factual link between information theory and psychology remains unknown. There
may be no better way to investigate to this issue than to subject this dual
natured creature to psychological treatment! In this work, we propose an
Ausubel-inspired ansatz to map the thermodynamic mind of Maxwell's demon,
addressing information processing from a cognitive perspective9-12. The main
calculation presented in this short report shows that the Ausubelian
assimilation theory13-15 leads to a Shannon-Hartley-like model1,2 that, in
turn, converges exactly to the Landauer limit16-18 when one single information
is discarded from the demon's memory. This result indicates that both a
thermodynamic device and an intelligent being "think" in the same way when one
bit of information is processed. Consequently, this finding links information
theory to the "psychological features" of the thermodynamic engine through the
Landauer limit, which opens a new path towards the conception of a multi-bit
reasoning machine.

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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex