Comment on "A thermodynamic approach to the problem of consciousness".
Medical Hypotheses March 1, 2020 Seyedsaeid Ahmadvand, Bijan Peik, Babak Azarfar
A philosophical and thermodynamic critique of Beshkar's conjecture that qualia and consciousness have a negentropic nature. The author disputes the fundamental assumptions of Beshkar's argument, which posits that qualia are building blocks of consciousness, both are subjective and non-observable, and arise from negentropic processes that nonetheless obey the second law of thermodynamics. The critique examines these assumptions from a thermodynamic perspective and scrutinizes the concept of subjectivity in more detail, arguing against the claim that quantum laws erase traces of negentropic processes. The paper engages with the theoretical foundations of qualia and consciousness without presenting empirical data.