In human thermodynamics, mental entropy is an oft-used, but ill-defined, term referring to either wasteful brain work, levels of mental organization or electrical organization, or in general the entropy associated with mental processes and their efficiencies, often themed towards those related to mental disorder or chaos. [1] In one sense, mental entropy is defined such that well-ordered thinking or “low entropy thinking” gives good results, whereas woolly thinking or badly ordered or “high entropy thinking” gives bad results. [2] The term “mental entropy” may possibly have an etymological origin in Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s theory of “psychic entropy”.

References
1. (a) Remmling, Gunter W. (1969). Road to Suspicion: A Study of Modern Mentality and the Sociology of Knowledge, (pgs. 4-5). Appleton-Century-Crofts.
(b) Mueller, Robert E. (1968). The Science of Art: The Cybernetics of Creative Communication, (pg. 67). Rapp & Whiting.
2. Handscomebe, Robert D. and Patterson, Eann A. (2004). The Entropy Vector (ch. 10: Mental Entropy, pgs. 139-153). World Scientific.

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