Is there any psychological relationship between Entropy and the Brain? In other words, can you focus your own mind and overcome the effects of Entropy? Or is that the wrong way to define Entropy in regards to the Brain?
I have an Audio Meditation called Holosync. It uses Binaural Beats along with music, rain, tuning forks, etc. The audio mediation itself is great. But the website seems to contain a lot of woo and quackery. He says his product helps you to overcome the entropy of the brain to achieve balance, harmony, etc. I tried looking up Brain + Entropy on the internet but the articles too scientific for me to comprehend.
In a medical sense, there is no “entropy of the brain” that has to be overcome. They’re peddling woo.
But if the meditation relaxes you and seems to help, great, keep it up (ETA: unless they’re extracting significant sums of money from you. In that case, don’t waste your money).
There is a term in physics called “entropy”, but it’s not a health issue nor something that especially targets the brain. Like many woo peddlers, they’re tossing science-y sounding words around in an attempt at legitimacy.
Well, to be fair, there is a sense in which entropy, in its real, physics sense, does mean disorder. That being so, it is not unreasonable to use “overcome the entropy of your brain” as a metaphor for “calm the chaos and confusion of your mind”. I am sure whoever wrote it knew it wouldn’t hurt their sales to make it all sound more sciencey, but as woospeak goes, this is a pretty honest and coherent example. (Well, assuming that it really does, at least to some extent, calm your mind, but you seem to be saying that it does.)
The big peddlers of woo masquerading as cosmetics do it too - Serum, Aquacellular, Advanced Filagrinol Complex, Poly-Collagen Peptides and BioSync Activating Complex to name but a few.
These are all pseudo scientific words that are used by the major cosmetic manufacturers like Laboratoire Garnier,Estée Lauder and Elizabeth Arden. I suspect that Laboratoire Garnier is a shed in someone’s back garden
I doubt that. More likely a big factory, belching black smoke.
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Incidentally, for those who think that dynamical systems theory is a useful tool for understanding the brain and cognition (which is a fairly respectable minority view in cognitive neuroscience these days), entropy is indeed a relevant concept (at least in the sense that the concepts and mathematics developed in both thermodynamics and chaos theory are thought to be likely to be applicable to the understanding of brain dynamics): see, for instance, this journal issue/call for papers on “Entropy in Human Brain Networks” (from the journal Entropy, no less).
However, I very much doubt whether the makers and marketers of the OP’s Holosync “Audio Meditation” know (or care) a damned thing about any of that.
