> It’s not just an analogy or a coincidence that the word “entropy” is a word used in both physics and computer science (information theory).

Shannon asked von Neumann what to call it, and von Neumann said "You should call it entropy, for two reasons: In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."