Entropy generation, Brain Dynamics, and Thomas Aquinas, Journal of Human Thermodynamics

Entropy and entropy generation are fundamental quantities in the analysis of complex systems. Indeed, they have been proved to be the key in the understanding of many different phenomena and of practical applications in engineering and science. They represent the fundamentals of most modern formulations of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In the last twenty years, entropy and entropy generation have been better understood in fundamental aspects and a great number of applications have been developed in classical engineering and new scientific area problems. In this paper, starting from these results, the entropy generation approach is presented as a powerful method of analysis of the brain function, in looked at in the light of the moralistic and philosophical arguments of Italian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas.