Give the new number a name. If 'energy' and 'information' are somehow interchangable, then its real real important to look into the nature of our Information Universe. Energy supplies 'information'. Space provides 'information'. Time provides 'information'.
Sequence provides 'information'.
Relationship provides 'information'. And so on. If we confuse dynamic principles and laws of nature with models of performance per se, then we will always suffer repurcussions of error and inaccuracy. To say the only statistical models should mimic an economy, to say that only fractal infromationand models are sufficient to mimic economic behaviors, to say that only fuzzy logic will accurately mimic systems behaviors, and so on, is to set ourselves up for ignominious failures time after time. Because the rest of the universe is functionally open and interactive.