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Zoltán Kisvárday

2 papers in the library · publishing 2021-2022

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How the Brain Becomes the Mind: Can Thermodynamics Explain the Emergence and Nature of Emotions?

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) October 20, 2022 Éva Déli, James F Peters, Zoltán Kisvárday

The neural systems' electric activities are fundamental for the phenomenology of consciousness. Sensory perception triggers an information/energy exchange with the environment, but the brain's recurrent activations maintain a resting state with constant parameters. Therefore, perception forms a closed thermodynamic cycle. In physics, the Carnot engine is an ideal thermodynamic cycle that...

DOI: 10.3390/e24101498 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Carnot cycle Brain state Consciousness Emotions +1

The thermodynamics of cognition: A mathematical treatment.

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal January 12, 2021 Éva Déli, James F Peters, Zoltán Kisvárday

There is a general expectation that the laws of classical physics must apply to biology, particularly the neural system. The evoked cycle represents the brain's energy/information exchange with the physical environment through stimulus. Therefore, the thermodynamics of emotions might elucidate the neurological origin of intellectual evolution, and explain the psychological and health...

DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.01.008 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Free will Emotional regulation Intellect +4