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The relevance of maximum entropy production principle and maximum information entropy principle in biology

Prigogine and Wiame noticed correctly that biological processes are irreversible and as such should be described within irreversible thermodynamics. They took the entropy production as the basic quantity for the description of biological processes. In contrast to Prigogine. who suggests the principle of minimum entropy production as a relevant principle for the biology, we take maximum entropy production principle as a relevant one. We argue here that maximum entropy production principle is more suitable than minimum entropy production principle for a description of energy transduction in biological systems. Our basic assumption is that the biological evolution through enzyme catalysis, is accompanied by an entropy production increase in internal transitions and with the Shannon’s information entropy increase of all enzyme states. In such a way the increase of entropy production is understood as being tightly coupled to biological evolution. Fully evolved enzymes are characterized by maximum possible entropy production in internal transitions.

entropy production; MEP principle; Shannon's information entropy; enzymes; biological evolution

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