Figure 3.

The paradox of information loss: (a) a statistical description of the system displays OEE. This means that, through time, the entropy of the ensemble grows without bounds. The consequence of that is that the information about the past history is totally erased as time goes by. Only a fraction of the history closer to the present survives. Therefore, there is no conservation of the information—see §4.3. (b) If our information is encoded in a non-statistical way, such as bit strings, it can be preserved. The historical information survives through evolutionary stages, even if the system displays OEE.