A possible human counterpart of the principle of increasing entropy |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;2. Department of Applied Physics, College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China |
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Abstract: | It is well-known that the principle of increasing entropy holds for isolated natural systems that contain non-adaptive molecules. Here we present, for the first time, an experimental evidence for a possible human counterpart of the principle in an isolated social system that involves adaptive humans. Our work shows that the human counterpart is valid even though interactions among humans in social systems are distinctly different from those among molecules in natural systems. Thus, it becomes possible to understand social systems from this natural principle, at least to some extent. |
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Keywords: | Human experiment Resource allocation Computer simulation Entropy Entropy-like quantity |
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