A conditionalist interpretation of the laws of thermodynamics
12/16/2025
Definitions:
- Energy: The potential (capacity) for expression.
- Work: The relationship between energy and expression.
- System: A defined space in which a specific set of expressions can occur.
- Internal energy: The total energy available for a system to exist.
- Temperature: The relationship between a system's internal energy and its capacity for work.
- Interaction: The expression (or occurrence) of work between two or more systems.
- Heat: The relationship between the temperatures of two or more interacting systems.
Postulates:
- Existence is conditional.
- All beings strive to express themselves - to manifest the relationship between their underlying conditions.
- What a being can express, it will express.
Propositions:
- Work can only occur through interaction.
- Interaction requires the use of energy.
- Systems are formed through interaction.
- Every interaction always expresses heat.
- The temperatures two or more interacting systems form the temperature of one system, of which each of the interacting systems becomes a part.