The First Law of Thermodynamics states that a thermodyne may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

The tendency to distort two unconnected fields of knowledge so as to draw a tenuous parallel between them -- and then to treat that parallel as a genuine insight into reality -- is the disordered thought of schizophrenics. Also of psychotherapists.

Sometimes this makes for splendid delirium, as when the psychologists got ahold of topology and (K)not Theory:



I had high expectations from Murray & McKenzie, for Medical Hypotheses has always upheld standards in the past.

But alas the paper is boring, with no diagrams, no coinage of neologisms and only one meaningless formula. Do we hear of the role of the Heat-Sync in transferring entropy? Do we learn how to improve the efficiency of the neuro-mechanical Carnot Cycle? Do we bog-roll.

Here's Žižek to show how it's done:

The Second Law states that the entropy of an isolated system must obey the orders given to it by human beings, because an epistemically-closed belief system spontaneously evolves towards thermodynamic equilibrium.

UPDATE: Bowhead whales improve the efficiency of their brains with the help of a heat sink, which is a 4-metre-long secondary penis in the roof of the mouth.