Andreas Schoth

The Mental Maxwell Relations: A Thermodynamic Allegory for Higher Brain Functions.

Frontiers in Neuroscience February 28, 2022 Joseph O'Neill, Andreas Schoth

The theoretical framework of classical thermodynamics unifies vastly diverse natural phenomena and captures once-elusive effects in concrete terms. Neuroscience confronts equally varied, equally ineffable phenomena in the mental realm, but has yet to unite or to apprehend them rigorously, perhaps due to an insufficient theoretical framework. The terms for mental phenomena, the mental variables,...