Thermodynamics 2.0 Program: Sessions and Abstracts
Mon - Wed, June 22 - June 24 , 2020 , Massachusetts, USA
Session T05: Complex System
15:15-15:55. Monday June 22, 2020
Chair: Shabnam Mousavi
Title: Synergy overcomes the Second law by increasing Free Energy while decreasing Entropy
Abstract:T05.W109
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.