---
slug: "Entropy"
name: "Entropy"
type: "Primitives"
layer: "Physics"
ref: "Entropy#d5f7"
sema_id: "sema:Entropy#mh:SHA-256:d5f7482e6c06a1e48eadbf28e6dca0cc0eb176bf75c70e7e467284f656d20bae"
tags: ["Physics","Primitives"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json
url: https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Entropy/
related: ["Message","System","Care","EntropyPump","Gradient","MutualInformation","sema:EntropyPump#mh:SHA-256:4009135f0c832faa6a21bada63f9513d84219f3e36357f5a53c184323a41fcf4"]
---

# Entropy

Measure of disorder

Layer: Physics · Category: Primitives

## Mechanism

A quantitative measure of disorder, uncertainty, or information content in a [System](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/System.md) or [Message](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Message.md).

## Invariants

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## Failure modes

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## Builds on

- [Message](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Message.md) (Infrastructure; References)
- [System](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/System.md) (Infrastructure; References)

## Used by

- [Care](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Care.md) (Infrastructure; References)
- [EntropyPump](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/EntropyPump.md) (Infrastructure; References)
- [Gradient](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Gradient.md) (Physics; References)
- [MutualInformation](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/MutualInformation.md) (Physics; References)

## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:Entropy#mh:SHA-256:d5f7482e6c06a1e48eadbf28e6dca0cc0eb176bf75c70e7e467284f656d20bae`
- Ref: `Entropy#d5f7`
- Supersedes:
  - `sema:Entropy#mh:SHA-256:323fd687b530ceedeeb7b7399fc4227f8181da3193c85afab0d66e26914a3749`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Entropy/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/#Entropy)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Entropy.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json)