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In the view of Jaynes (1957), thermodynamic entropy, as explained by statistical mechanics, should be seen as an application of Shannon's information theory: the thermodynamic entropy is interpreted as being proportional to the amount of further Shannon information needed to define the detailed microscopic state of the system, that remains uncommunicated by a description solely in terms of the macroscopic variables of classical thermodynamics, with the constant of proportionality being just ...
A non-isolated system may interact with another non-isolated system in such a way that the increase in entropy of one is greater than the decrease in entropy of the other so that while the entropy of the second decreases the net entropy increases.