Based on economic thermodynamics and dissipative structure theory, this paper reveals that the essence of human social progress is the coordinated evolutionary process of the improvement of controllable energy dissipation efficiency at the material level and the elevation of consciousness entropy hierarchy at the spiritual level by constructing dual models of human social energy flow and consciousness entropy time evolution. The research shows that the ordered upgrading of social structure depends on the construction of a multi-level dissipative system and the continuous input of negative entropy flow, while the irreversible transition of consciousness entropy hierarchy is the core order parameter driving the iteration of social forms. Typical historical events such as the Magna Carta of England, the establishment of the functional government of the United States, and especially the autonomous reform of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, are concrete manifestations of the hierarchical transition of consciousness entropy and the jump from low-temperature steady state to high-temperature steady state in the dissipative system, which further verify the rationality of the theoretical model. In recent years, brain-computer interface technologies represented by Neuralink have realized the collection, analysis and translation of human brain mental signal. Such engineering practices empirically verify the core logic of the consciousness entropy theory proposed in this paper. Human mental activity is essentially the dynamic flow and morphological evolution of consciousness entropy value. The process of capturing, sorting and decoding neural electrical signals by brain-computer interfaces is actually the orderly refinement and visualized output of consciousness entropy flow. They share highly consistent underlying operating rules, which further proves the practical adaptability and academic rationality of this theoretical system.
Xijiang Hu (2026) studied this question.