title: Theology and thermodynamics of life and mind in the scientific legacy of Nikolay Ivanovich Kobozev
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metadata.value: Krivovichev, Sergey V. (priest)
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metadata.value: 2023-09-29T16:05:32Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09-29T16:05:32Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Krivovichev S. V. Theology and thermodynamics of life and mind in the scientific legacy of Nikolay Ivanovich Kobozev. Issues of Theology, 2023, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 369–387. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2023.302 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2023.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44000
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metadata.value: Nikolay Ivanovich Kobozev (1903–1974), Professor of Moscow State University,
  famous Russian physico-chemist, specialist in the field of thermodynamics. In his
  works devoted to thermodynamics of information and thinking, he emphasized the
  incompatibility between the entropy law for molecular structures, including molecular
  machinery of the mind, and the law of identity for thinking. In order to
  compensate for the molecular entropy, the mind should receive a negative entropy
  or antientropy, which is defined on the basis of the extended concept of thermodynamic
  probability. The latter is defined as a number of procedures (algorithms) that
  can be used to produce a physico-chemical system from its elementary components.
  For non-algorithmic systems, the entropy is negative. In order to model processing
  and production of information, N. I. Kobozev postulated the existence in a brain
  of a strongly degenerate Fermi gas of superlight Ψ-particles (psychons), thus being
  one of the first scientists who emphasized the importance of quantum processes for
  the physics of mind. In all its levels, life contains an antientropic component, which
  distinguishes it from the non-living matter. According to Kobozev, ‘human mind
  cannot be the result of evolutionary transformation of information function into
  thinking. The latter must be given to us, and not acquired in the course of evolution’.
  Since the source of information is the God Himself, the N. I. Kobozev’s works correspond
  to the theocentric scientific worldview and they can well be considered as
  theological construction in natural sciences.
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metadata.value: The present research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project
  no. 21-011-44141.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 5; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nikolay Ivanovich Kobozev
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: thermodynamics of thinking
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mind
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: antientropy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: quantum physics of brain
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: thermodynamic probability
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: symbolic thinking
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theology of science
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metadata.value: Theology and thermodynamics of life and mind in the scientific legacy of Nikolay Ivanovich Kobozev
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