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daviding says: If the foundation of the system is in entropy rather than equilibrium, we'll need to figure out how exchange-based societies work, and the function of money (as information, in a general theory of systems).

The specific purpose of this paper is to trace the development of entropy-related thought from its thermodynamic origins through its organizational and economic applications to its relationship to money information. That trace reveals that existing entropy measures are of states or changes in states that are caused by energy processes. We propose that entropy may as well be conceived as entropic process. The social emergent specific exchange value provides a metric by which entropic process may be quantified. The analysis connects the traditional state-oriented entropy measures to measures of entropic process in social systems. In doing so, the character of exchange-based societies and the function of money information within them are elaborated.

This 5 minute video describes the notation of Ecolanguage. At 0:25, the voiceover says "There are 25 basic symbols, but there are only 6 kinds". At the bottom of the screen, those kinds are: - Sources - Organisms - Flows - Controls - Storage - Contexts At 4:00, four symbols of context are described: - All purpose (abstract, for anything you want) - Central context (abstract, for ideas and information that a group holds in common, also used to mark the leader of the group) - Land property (the ownership of land) - Price (market transaction) Red symbols mean money, and yellow symbols mean matter-energy. The other color are only symbolic (e.g. green for green plants)

The notation of ecolanguage uses shapes and colors.