[Physics] Is Information a potential or kinetic kind of energy

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It is said that the law of least action is that nature tries to convert potential energy into kinetic one as fast as possible.

Information can't be thought without a physical realisation, see here. It may be thought as a form of entropy. So information is physical and therefore it's connected to a certain kind of energy. But is it a potential or a kinetic kind of energy?

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Neither. Information isn't energy and can't be measured using energy units. As you pointed out, information is related to entropy which is about degrees of freedom in a system.

In physics, information is usually measured in nats but bits are common too.

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