Volume 5, Number 4, pp. 151 - 152
The thermodynamic goal of intelligence: heat for thought?
C.M. Nayakar
Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, MadrasIt is well known that a living system is thermodynamically a system of low energy and low entropy, which struggles to preserve its low energy state against the tendency of its low entropy to increase and thereby destroy the system. This proposition can be considered to elucidate the thermodynamic goal of life. Here I will propose the thermodynamic goal of "intelligent" life.