Construction of Consciousness Entropy Based on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and a Unified Theory of Individual and Social Mental Evolution
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Traditional psychology, psychiatry, information theory, and thermodynamics have long been in a state of disciplinary fragmentation: information entropy only describes the uncertainty of symbols, mental entropy only describes emotional chaos, psychology lacks underlying physical axioms, and social psychological phenomena lack a unified mathematical model. Based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and dissipative structure theory, this paper originally proposes a globally unified concept—consciousness entropy. This paper integrates Shannon information entropy and traditional mental entropy into the consciousness entropy subsystem, constructs a four-level nested entropy change equation system (individual-group-society-country), and establishes the individual mental evolution mechanism, the game mechanism between individual and social entropy fields, and the macro negative entropy system of cultural institutions, realizing a unified physical explanation of psychology, spirit, behavior, morality, and social paradigm changes. The research shows that the underlying driving force of all human emotions, desires, choices, and behaviors is to pursue entropy reduction and suppress entropy increase; the essence of mental and psychological diseases is the entropy regulation instability of the mental dissipative system; the criteria for judging the normality and abnormality of social psychology change with the iteration of the steady-state interval of the social entropy field in the era. This study completes the axiom unification of natural sciences and mental social sciences for the first time, and constructs a unified theoretical system of mental evolution that is mathematically derivable, hierarchically nested, and dynamically coupled. The concept of "Consciousness Entropy" and its hierarchical evolution system proposed in this paper are theoretical results independently explored and originally constructed by the author from an interdisciplinary perspective. No similar theoretical model that unifies the dissipative structure of thermodynamics, information theory, psychology, and social system theory exists in the current academic framework. Its core definition, mathematical equations, and coupling mechanisms are all proposed for the first time, representing a novel exploration of the underlying laws governing the evolution of mental and social order.
Author: Hu, Xijiang
Language: English
Topic: Complex Systems and Dynamics
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7161474064
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