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This phenomenon leads us to Landauer's principle, articulated by Rolf Landauer, which states that any irreversible manipulation of information, such as erasing a bit of information, must correspond with an increase in entropy. Hence, despite our initial perception of Maxwell's Demon thwarting the second law, the broader context elucidates a fundamental truth: knowledge of a system allows for potential work extraction, albeit at the cost of entropy elsewhere.