At present I write mostly in Russian: /ru/
Translation from Russian:
- Erwin Schrödinger and Negative Entropy: A critique of the metaphor of negative entropy. Entropy as disorder in the 19th century. Schrödinger: Order, disorder and entropy. Discussion: Order and disorder. Understanding chemical reactions.
- The Problem of Coordination: Temperature as a Physical Quantity: Mathematics, Physics, and Measurement. Modern Temperature Measurement. Episodes from the History of Thermometry. Helmholtz, Mach and Duhem on Measurement in Physics.
My book in Russian ‘Virtual World Theory‘: Neurophysiology and consciousness. The history of the virtual world theory. Where perceptions are located. What does science say?
My book in Russian ‘Understanding Entropy in Light of a Candle‘: Classical thermodynamics. Statistical mechanics. What does physics say? Physics, mathematics and the world.
I have started to translate it into English.
For this blog – Content: Philosophy. Biology. Physics. History. Misc.
Thermodynamics
- Entropy and Miscibility Gap: Tutorial for Biologists: Simple regular solution as an example. In an adiabatically isolated system, the increase of the entropy corresponds to the formation of two phases from a homogeneous mixture.
- Entropy and Information: Critique on using information entropy in thermodynamics.
- Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach: A review of Haddad, Chellaboina, Nersesov. An interesting mixture of thermodynamics and system theory.
- From Boltzmann’s fluctuation hypothesis to Boltzmann’s Brain: Quotes from Huw Price ‘The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles and Pseudo-Puzzles‘. Also from Sean Carroll ‘Boltzmann Anthropic Brain‘.
Posts that I recommend
- Hinshelwood, bacteria and biologists: Why biologists have ignored experiments of Hinshelwood? My thoughts and a list of papers that I have collected in search for an answer.
- DNA to represent proteins: Using van Fraassen’s approach to representation to analyze a paper – Barbieri, Is the cell a semiotic system?
- Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead: My thoughts after reading ‘The Grand Design‘ by Hawking and Mlodinow.
- Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Pi: A thought experiment to discuss whether Pi exists. Physicalism vs. Platonism.
- Simulation Hypothesis and Simulation Technology: Discussing simulation hypothesis from the viewpoint of the current simulation technology. Technology falls short of needs in Matrix.
- Quantum Microbiology: My thoughts and doubts about paper by J. T. Trevors and L. Masson.
- Perception, Feedback, and Qualia: Could bacteria perceive? Comparison with a system with feedback and a robot. Does a bacterium already has qualia?