MetaphysicsMetaphysics2224-7580Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2622310.22363/2224-7580-2020-1-47-51Research ArticlePHILOSOPHICAL MEANING OF THE LANDAUER PRINCIPLE: INFORMATION WAY TO THE GREAT UNIFICATIONBormashenkoEd.-Ariel University151220201475102042021Copyright © 2023, Metaphysics2023The Landauer principle quantifies the thermodynamic cost of the recording/erasure of one bit of information, as it was stated by its author: “information is physical” and it has an energy equivalent. In its narrow sense, the Landauer principle states that the erasure of one bit of information requires a minimum energy cost equal toLandauer principleinformationmetaphysical paradigms of physicsunity of energy and mass informationПринцип Ландауэраинформацияметафизические парадигмы физикиединство информации энергии и массы[Владимиров Ю.С. Метафизика. М.: Бином, 2009.][Кузнецов С.И. Стандартные модели: метафизика искаженной реальности // Метафизика. 2018. № 2 (28). С. 22-28.][Каганов М. К столетию со дня рождения Льва Давидовича Ландау // 7 Искусств. 2019. 9 (113).][Smolin Lee. The trouble with physics. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, USA, 2007.][Севальников А.Ю. Традиционная метафизики и квантовая механика // Метафизика. 2017. № 1 (23). С. 33-52.][Landauer R. Dissipation and heat generation in the computing process // IBM Journal of Research and Development. 1961. 5. 183.][Landauer R. Information is physical // Physics Today. 1991. 44 (5). 23-29.][Landauer R. Minimal energy requirements in communication // Science. 1996. 272. 1914-1918.][Фурсов В.А. Лекции по теории информации: учеб. пособие / под ред. Н.А. Кузнецова. Самара: Изд-во Самар. гос. аэрокосм. ун-та, 2006.][Бриллюэн Л. Наука и теория информации. М.: Физматгиз, 1960.][Szilard L. Über die Entropieverminderung in Einem Thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen Intelligenter Wesen // Zeitschrift für Physik. 1929. 53 (11-12). 840-856.][Lutz E., Ciliberto S. Information: From Maxwell’s demon to Landauer’s eraser // Physics Today. 2015. 68 (9). 30-35.][Bormashenko Ed., Shkorbatov A., Gendelman O. The Carnot engine based on the small thermodynamic system: Its efficiency and the ergodic hypothesis // Am. J. Physics. 2007. 75. 911- 915.][Norton J.D. Eaters of the lotus: Landauer's principle and the return of Maxwell's demon // Studies in History & Philosophy Sci. 2005. 36 (2). P. 375-411.][Norton J.D. Waiting for Landauer // Studies in History & Philosophy Sci. B. 2011. 42. P. 184- 198.][Bérut A., Arakelyan A., Petrosyan A., Ciliberto S., Dillenschneider R., Lutz E. Experimental verification of Landauer's principle linking information and thermodynamics // Nature. 2012. 483. 7388.][Jun Y., Gavrilov M., Bechhoefer J. High-Precision test of Landauer's Principle in a feedback trap // Phys. Rev. Lett. 2014. 113 (19). 190601.][Gaudenzi R., Burzuri, E., Maegawa S., van der Zant H., Luis F. Quantum Landauer erasure with a molecular nanomagnet // Nature Physics. 2018. 14 (6). 565-568.][Wheeler J.A. Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology. Tokyo, 1989. 354-368.][Herrera L. The mass of a bit of information and the Brillouin’s Principle // Fluctuation & Noise Lett. 2014. 13 (1). 14500.][Vopson M.M. The mass-energy-information equivalence principle // AIP Adv. 2019. 9. 095206.][Bormashenko Ed. The Landauer Principle: Re-Formulation of the Second Thermodynamics Law or a Step to Great Unification? // Entropy. 2019. 21 (10). 918.][Hilt S., Shabbir S., Anders J., Lutz E. Landauer’s principle in the quantum regime // Phys. Rev. E. 2011. 83. 030102(R).]