Rezensionen
Rezensionen
Claus Wengel
Gestalttheorie - Funktionelle Zusammenhänge von Information, Energie und Temperatur in Physik und Physiologie
Buchbesprechung
Starting from the phenomenon of the information input and the information output system in the central nervous system, which was conceived in physiology, as well as from the phenomenon
of the disturbance oc consciousness, which was in neuropsychiatry psychopathometrically and by this quantitatively determinable, the author was occupied by the general question: How systems can be described, which possess and exchange temperature, energy, and information? A connection of thermodynamics and information theory was found and presented in this work.
It came to the redefinition of several quantities, which can be applied both in mathematical physics and in mathematical physiology. First the negentropy was defined in fact as first partial
derivation of the total information on the absolute temperature. Further definitions follow:
That of the shape (measured in bit•J/K), that of the action (measured in bit•J), as wellthat of the structure (measured in bit•J/K2). Functional Connections of information, energy, and temperature as well as of further quantities became recognizable and were written. Mathematical physics were thereby enriched, also by conservation laws. But also mathematical physiology was extended. Here diseases like the infiammatory diseases catatonia, epilepsy, tumor, vegetative dystonies, anorexy, dementia, as well as the phenomenon vitality and the phenomenon sleeping were comprehended by formulas. As consequences resulted proposals resulted for the
prophylaxis and for the therapy and für the design of a live-preserving and live-elongating way of life.
These proposals are in the sections, which treat the diseases, detailedly listed and derived. Furthermore a first law of psychodynamics was formulated - in analogy to the first law
of thermodynamics.
