human enthalpy

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Human enthalpyIn human thermodynamics, human enthalpy is the value of enthalpy associated with anindividual human molecule (person), in a given state, or enthalpy of a system of human

molecules (social system or social configuration) in a given state.

Overview

The enthalpy calculation of humans is a little discussed subject, respectively, say as compared to

human entropy or human free energy.

In 1994, citing previous comparisons made by Hungarian physicist Bela Lukacs, Australian

organic chemist and commerce theorist James Reiss, in his chapter "Comparative

Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Economics", correlated enthalpy to work or labor energy. [1]American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims's 2007 tabulation of the enthalpy components of

a human (human enthalpy), attributing the measure largely to physical attributes. [2]

In the mid-2000s, American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims began to work a human

chemical theory on the nature of enthalpy in relation to human chemical reactions, generally

correlating enthalpy measure to heat content measurements of sexual factors in humanrelationships, the 2007 formulation result of which is as follows: [2]

where HAVG is the enthalpy (heat content) associated with the physical attractive trait

"averageness" (the most averaged person tends to be the most physically attractive), HAGE with

the physical attractive trait age (age 22 for females is the most physically attractive age), HS with

the physical attractiveness trait "symmetry" (the most physically symmetric persons tend to beseen as the most attractive), HX with the physical attractiveness associated with the testosterone

to estrogen ratio of a given individual (high estrogen women tend to pair with high testosteronemen), HL the physical attractiveness associated with one ethnicity, i.e. latitude of development

(people tend to be most physically attracted to individuals differing in ethnicity to their own by

15 degrees in latitude, as determined experimentally via the Sweaty T-shirt study, i.e. MHC-

compatibility complex matching, and in person surveys), HF the physical attractivenessassociated with "fitness" (fit people are seen as being more physically attractive than less fit

people), and HC the physical attractiveness associated with "complexion" (people with better

complex are seen as being more physically attractive).

In 2007, Hungarian astrophysicists Attila Grandpierre, in association with Hungarian physicistKatalin Martinas, in the article Thermodynamic Measure for Nonequilibrium Processes,

estimated the entropy of a 70-kg human to be 202 KJ/K and on this value estimate the extropy ofa human to be 2.31 MJ/K. The calculation, although a good first attempt, is nearly baseless in

that its value is ascertained using entropy estimates of things such as glucose and water. In the

article, the attempt a calculation of human enthalpy, using data such as the combustion of heat offat, and use these estimates of S and H, to calculated a human Gibbs free energy G, using the

formula G = H - TS (see: human free energy). [3]


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Discussion

Comparing the Thims and Grandpierre methods of estimating the entropy of humans, thereseems to be disjunct between whether or not enthalpy is gauged by combustion heats (e.g. sexual

heat) of human chemical reactions or with combustion of lard factors (burning of a human body

in a calorimeter)?

References

1. Reiss, James A. (1994). Comparative Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Economics, in:

Economics and Thermodynamics: New Perspectives on Economic Analysis (ch. 5, pgs. 47-72)edited by Peter Burley and John Foster. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

2. (a) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One) (enthalpy components of the

human chemical bond, pgs. 270-72). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.

(b) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two) (human enthalpy, pg. 671).Morrisville, NC: LuLu.

3. Martinas, Katalin and Grandpierre, Attilia. (2007). Thermodynamic Measure for

Nonequilibrium Processes, Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 5(1): 1-13.

System of Enthalpy

Rooted in our language is a bias. Its a bias that we can hardly be blamed for, based as it is in ourconception of ourselves as distinct entities whose existence can be felt, from one moment to the

next, through time. Nature appears to move forwards, the ice-cube melts if left unattended, the

scream in the night dissipates into silence.

For very similar reasons we see society as a progressive entity. The 19th Century, Positivist

appeal to a human reality that moves towards an ultimate goal still lingers in our rationalarguments, in our science, in our humanist rhetoric. Again, we see technology as endlesslyprogressive. The tractor is fundamentally better than the plough, the internet trounces the

telephone; the mailed envelope; the scream in the dark night.

But forwards is not the only way that things can move.

Most days I head to the British Library and pick up my pile of books from the counter. At the

moment half of them are about play, about the systems of rules that mediate human games andwhat the order of games can tell us about human social activity. The other half of my book pile is

made up of works of philosophy written in the last 30 years. Works by Deleuze, Serres,

Agamben and Foucault. Their work speaks to me in a non-progressive way. Deleuze and Serresespecially expound systems of thinking that grow like a supernovae or a colony of slime mould.From one perspective the supernovae is a system destined to implode, its central core rebounding

the slew of material manufactured in the stars long lifetime, out and into the wider cosmos. A

slime mould, similarly, appears to be a system destined to grow, procreate and expand its geneticimpact on the world. Both of these systems though can be better understood if we take them out

of their human perceived, progressive contexts. To really grasp the supernovae one must

understand the laws that govern its cycle of energy ebb and bloom. The same laws that govern


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the life cycle of the slime-mould. Thermo dynamics and the transitional principles that underlie

physical systemsas seeming chaos bifurcates into autopoietic order.

How these principles underlie the philosophy of Deleuze and Serres is difficult to summarise

here, and also dangerous. I am still a novice when it comes to their theoretical paradigms. What

can be said though is that their principles are non-progressive, non-positivistic. The order theysee in social systems, in cultural artefacts and metaphysical constructions is better understood asorder determined by thresholds rather than historical movements, by the flow of information

between systems, rather than the inevitable consequences of scientific and social orders.

At present I am working through the vague notion that our systems of symbolic communication

would be better understood through their non-linear logics. That sacrifice and sacrament, scribe

and inscription, digital code and malleable media are each a series of complexity thresholds in a

grand order of semiotics that has been growing and blooming, shrinking and decaying in timewith the ebb and flow of human culture and technology.

I write this here as an annotation on things to come (on my website). It is not a delineated path ofenquiry. It is merely a structure I intend to topographically identify, map and encourage. Heres

to Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres, as well as some other names I will label their accomplices,

such as Giorgio Agamben, Manuel de Landa, Lev Manovich and a whole heap more.

Agreed! The universal soil, that supreme order underlying all things, appears more like a tissue

than an individually-segmented grid, and if time (and the technology growing out of it) are in

anyway 'determinable' , then it must be in a way that is somehow involved with gravity, a forcewe do not generally conceive of as 'moving forward,' yet one which exerts a physical and indeed

scientifically measurable influence on our lives!

Outstanding post Daniel. I don't have much to say other than I think your strain or rhizome ofthinking here is profoundly appropriate for the tasks of being human in the worlds we currently

inter-inhabit. I am with you on all fronts - and look forward to gleaning off whatever threshold

you intend or haphazardly push through or intensify, eventually explodes causing shards andripples that tear through accepted dogma and open doors to something as yet totally unthought

of, and ultimately more life-affirming.

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