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: Received: 17 July 2020 / Approved: 19 July 2020 / Online: 19 July 2020 (18:57:32 CEST)
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: Received: 25 August 2021 / Approved: 27 August 2021 / Online: 27 August 2021 (11:31:19 CEST)
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: Received: 8 October 2021 / Approved: 8 October 2021 / Online: 8 October 2021 (10:59:21 CEST)
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Jaffe, K. A Forth Law of Thermodynamics: Synergy Increases Free Energy While Decreasing Entropy. Preprints2020, 2020070422. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0422.v3
Jaffe, K. A Forth Law of Thermodynamics: Synergy Increases Free Energy While Decreasing Entropy. Preprints 2020, 2020070422. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0422.v3
Jaffe, K. A Forth Law of Thermodynamics: Synergy Increases Free Energy While Decreasing Entropy. Preprints2020, 2020070422. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0422.v3
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Jaffe, K. (2021). A Forth Law of Thermodynamics: Synergy Increases Free Energy While Decreasing Entropy. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0422.v3
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Jaffe, K. 2021 "A Forth Law of Thermodynamics: Synergy Increases Free Energy While Decreasing Entropy" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0422.v3
Abstract
Synergy, emerges from synchronized reciprocal positive feedback loops between a network of diverse actors. For this process to proceed, compatible information from different sources synchronically coordinates the actions of the actors resulting in a nonlinear increase in the useful work or potential energy the system can manage. In contrast noise is produced when incompatible information is mixed. This synergy produced from the coordination of different agents achieves non-linear gains in free energy and in information (negentropy) that are greater than the sum of the parts. The final product of new synergies is an increase in individual autonomy of an organism that achieves increased emancipation from the environment with increases in productivity, efficiency, capacity for flexibility, self-regulation and self-control of behavior through a synchronized division of ever more specialized labor. Examples that provide quantitative data for this phenomenon are presented. Results show that increases in free energy density require decreases in entropy density. This is proposed as a law of thermodynamics.
Keywords
Entropy; Free energy; Synergy
Subject
Physical Sciences, Thermodynamics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Klaus Jaffe
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author