African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2023 | |
Short EssayOpenAccess | |
Monotheism and Increased Entropy: A Short Essay on the Thermodynamics of Culture |
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Richard Preschel1* |
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1Independent. E-mail: preschelr@gmail.com
*Corresponding Author | |
Afr.J.Humanit.&Soc.Sci. 3(1) (2023) 28-34, DOI: https://doi.org/10.51483/AFJHSS.3.1.2023.28-34 | |
Received: 27/11/2022|Accepted: 22/01/2023|Published: 05/02/2023 |
Living organisms are as much subject to entropy than in organic matter is. Human culture and its products are no exception. We show how ethological and psychological phenomena like mimetism, economic phenomena like monopolies, and belief systems like monotheism, follow the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
Keywords: Anthropology, Christianity, Entropy, Islam, Judaism, Metabolism, Methane, Mimetism, Monopolies, Monotheism
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