Information and entropic force: physical description of biological cells, chemical reaction kinetics, and information theory

Abstract

Chemical reaction kinetics and information theory, as continuous developments of the methodologies and thinkings originating in physics, have played prominent roles in describing the behaviors, logics, and functions of individual biological cells. Based on a recently developed unifying theory of mesoscopic chemical kinetics and Gibbsian macroscopic chemical thermodynamics, this paper attempts to discuss both chemical kinetics and information theory in the single framework of nonlinear, stochastic dynamical systems, and proposes the hypothesis that information is a form of entropy force.