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Thread started: Feb 5 2018, 4:53 PM EST Watch Herodotus writes about a potential theory of race in Book II: Egypt Geography, Customs, History, Tales in the "The Histories". He suggests that heat or thermodynamics may be the cause of some racial differences.



"The first and greatest evidence is afforded by the winds, which blow hot from these regions; the second is that the land is rainless always and without frost, whereas after snow has fallen rain must necessarily come within five days, so that if it snowed in those parts rain would fall there; the third evidence is afforded by the people dwelling there, who are of black colour by reason of the burning heat."—Herodotus (2.23) out of found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Show Last Reply Last Reply:

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Thread started: Jan 24 2013, 5:03 AM EST Watch The problem with human thermodynamics is that it assumes that humans will act without choice.



And what is choice in thermodynamic terms except a quantum computation?



So humans are subject to chaos, but are also fundamentally able to create order from chaos to a degree.



For example, thermodynamics might state that I am likely to end up with a rich jewish woman, coming from a rich jewish family and having social interactions with them.



But they were mean, so I ended up with a poor Christian. Was I employing free will or not? Did I rebel against the established order? I thought I did.



Then, I divorced the poor Christian and remarried to a rich Jew. Did I have free will in either instance? What effect does choice have on us? out of found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Show Last Reply Last Reply:

RE: What effect does choice have on us? [2]

By: Sadi-Carnot , Jan 24 2013, 6:20 AM EST



http://www.eoht.info/page/Arthur+Schopenhauer



Both Goethe and Schopenhauer thought about "will" in terms of the "chemical affinities", roughly the force that creates the will, in anthropomorphic speak.



In 1882, via Hermann Helmholtz's "On the Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes", the measure of chemical affinity became reinterpreted as the measure of the "free energy" of the reacting system. Hence, in modern terms, if you want to understand "will" you need to become a free energy theorist, the list of human free energy theorists shown below:



http://www.eoht.info/page/Human+free+energy



Also, if that doesn't satisfy you, then you can read Goethe's protege Arthur Schopenhauer's 1814/1844 two-volume 1222-page "The World as Will and Representation", wherein he carries forward Goethe's theories, albeit with focus on a "will to power" theory.Both Goethe and Schopenhauer thought about "will" in terms of the "chemical affinities", roughly the force that creates the will, in anthropomorphic speak.In 1882, via Hermann Helmholtz's "On the Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes", the measure of chemical affinity became reinterpreted as the measure of the "free energy" of the reacting system. Hence, in modern terms, if you want to understand "will" you need to become a free energy theorist, the list of human free energy theorists shown below: out of found this valuable. Do you find this valuable?