  We illustrate in terms familiar to modern day science students that: (i) an
uncertainty slope mechanism underlies the usefulness of temperature via its
reciprocal, which is incidentally around 42 [nats/eV] at the freezing point of
water; (ii) energy over kT and differential heat capacity are ``multiplicity
exponents'', i.e. the bits of state information lost to the environment outside
a system per 2-fold increase in energy and temperature respectively; (iii) even
awaiting description of ``the dice'', gambling theory gives form to the laws of
thermodynamics, availability minimization, and net surprisals for measuring
finite distances from equilibrium, information content differences, and
complexity; (iv) heat and information engine properties underlie the biological
distinction between autotrophs and heterotrophs, and life's ongoing symbioses
between steady-state excitations and replicable codes; and (v) mutual
information resources (i.e. correlations between structures e.g. a phenomenon
and its explanation, or an organism and its niche) within and across six
boundary types (ranging from the edges of molecules to the gap between
cultures) are delocalized physical structures whose development is a big part
of the natural history of invention. These tools might offer a physical
framework to students of the code-based sciences when considering such
disparate (and sometimes competing) issues as conservation of available work
and the nurturing of genetic or memetic diversity.
