No, it’s about maximizing the free energy
Wait, what? This is literally the opposite of what thermodynamics does though?
Yes. I think Beff was speaking imprecisely there. In order to be consistent with what he’s written elsewhere, he should have said something like: “maximizing the rate of free energy dissipation”.
Wait, what? This is literally the opposite of what thermodynamics does though?
Yes. I think Beff was speaking imprecisely there. In order to be consistent with what he’s written elsewhere, he should have said something like: “maximizing the rate of free energy dissipation”.