Micah’s New Law of Thermodynamics
A Signal-Dissipation Framework for Equilibrium and Consciousness
Introducing Micah’s New Law of Thermodynamics, A Signal-Dissipation Framework for Equilibrium and Consciousness.
A link to the full paper and a full description of the paper can be found below:
Micah’s New Law of Thermodynamics: A Signal-Dissipation Framework for Equilibrium and Consciousness. figshare. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28264340.v4
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1. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION
Classical thermodynamics explains how energy moves and why systems tend toward uniform states (equilibrium). Yet it usually treats these outcomes in aggregate, speaking of averages like temperature and entropy, rather than showing the individual steps that lead to equilibrium.
Micah’s New Law of Thermodynamics proposes that these steps are best understood as local signal exchanges that reduce mismatches in a wave-like manner. Whenever one region has more energy, a different phase, or some other difference, local interactions gradually transfer and “smooth out” that difference across the system. We see this in gases spreading out, but also in neurons synchronizing in the brain.
The underlying claim is that all approaches to equilibrium—whether in physics, biology, or beyond—can be viewed as iterative wave-based processes. This perspective can unify thermodynamics with emerging ideas about neural synchronization, consciousness, and even speculative theories that tie gravity to variations in time “density.”
2. FOUNDATIONAL IDEAS IN THERMODYNAMICS
Thermodynamics is built around:
Energy Conservation (First Law): Energy is neither created nor destroyed.
Entropy Increase (Second Law): Isolated systems move toward higher entropy, often meaning greater “disorder” or uniformity.
Absolute Zero (Third Law): Approaching absolute zero locks the system into its lowest-energy state.
Standard treatments focus on overall trends (e.g., total entropy) rather than explaining in detail how local interactions drive those trends. That’s where Micah’s New Law adds a more direct, step-by-step viewpoint.
3. WHY A “NEW LAW” OF THERMODYNAMICS?
Many researchers accept the standard laws as is, but Micah’s New Law aims to:
Highlight Local Mechanisms: Show how small-scale interactions systematically erase differences.
Unify Across Fields: Link classical thermodynamic concepts with neural synchronization and possibly with quantum gravity ideas.
Recast Entropy: Instead of viewing entropy growth as mere probability, see it as the result of local exchanges that “cancel out” mismatches.
Rather than contradicting well-known principles, this law underscores a universal “wave-dissipation” process that underlies equilibrium-seeking behavior in many domains.
4. CONCEPTUAL CORE OF MICAH’S NEW LAW
At heart:
“Local interactions, viewed as signal exchanges, steadily reduce any difference in energy, phase, or other properties until the system reaches equilibrium or a stable pattern.”
These “signals” can be collisions, electromagnetic waves, or neural spikes. Each event transfers part of the difference from one component to another. Over many such exchanges, large-scale uniformity or synchronization emerges.
5. LOCAL SIGNAL EXCHANGE AND DIFFERENCE DISSIPATION
Consider a hot and cold region meeting: collisions and microscopic flows pass heat from the hot zone to the cold zone. Each tiny interaction lessens the mismatch in temperature until uniformity is reached.
In this law, every “collision” or “wave exchange” is a local step that processes and reduces some fraction of the overall difference. Repeated countless times, these small steps yield the large-scale outcome of an even temperature or other shared property.
6. APPLICATIONS TO CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS
In classical examples like gas expansion or heat conduction:
Molecules collide, exchanging momentum and energy.
Each collision is a mini-update that shrinks the mismatch in velocity or energy between particles.
Summed over trillions of collisions, the system’s temperature, pressure, or other properties become uniform.
Micah’s perspective: The second law (entropy increase) is an inevitable result of these many wave-like interactions dispersing differences.
7. FROM MOLECULES TO MINDS: BRIDGING THERMODYNAMICS AND NEUROSCIENCE
Neuroscience observes rhythmic oscillations in the brain (alpha, beta, gamma waves). One puzzle is how billions of neurons can coordinate so quickly to produce coherent states linked to perception or action.
By analogy with gas molecules, neural “collisions” are the rapid exchanges of signals across synapses or through electric fields. The differences to be canceled here are often phase offsets between rhythmic firing patterns. Over time, repeated interactions align phases, leading to large-scale synchronization in the brain.
8. OSCILLATORY SYNCHRONIZATION AND THE BRAIN
Studies in neuroscience show that neurons can spontaneously lock together in rhythmic firing patterns, which may be crucial for processes like attention or sensory binding. When local brain areas interact, they nudge each other’s oscillatory phases toward coherence. This is much like how pendulums or fireflies sync up.
From Micah’s Law viewpoint, each firing or feedback signal is a step that adjusts phase differences. Repeated enough, the system “computes” its way to a coherent oscillation, forming a foundation for integrated cognitive states.
9. CONSCIOUSNESS AND BINDING THROUGH WAVE-LIKE INTERACTIONS
One of the mysteries of consciousness is how separate sensory inputs—visual, auditory, tactile—unify into a single experience. Oscillatory synchronization is one proposed mechanism. If each cortical region is oscillating in a certain pattern, then local signal exchanges can gradually align their phases, effectively “binding” multiple sources into one coherent perception.
Though this doesn’t fully solve why consciousness feels the way it does, it offers a plausible physical process: wave-based difference reduction unifies local neural signals into a single, larger-scale pattern.
10. FREE ENERGY, PREDICTIVE CODING, AND MICAH’S LAW
Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle says the brain reduces “prediction error” (the gap between expected and actual input). That is, it seeks to minimize mismatch. Micah’s Law describes a similar process but uses physical wave exchanges to do the “error correction.”
Thus, predictive coding in neuroscience can be reinterpreted as wave-difference dissipation: each mismatch is a “phase gap” or local discrepancy that the system’s updates aim to erase. Over time, the brain becomes better at matching its predictions to the world.
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