In human thermodynamics, the laws of human thermodynamics are set of supposed or hypothetical laws of thermodynamics for human beings or human molecules reasoned to be unique, in some way, from the standard laws of thermodynamics for systems of atoms and molecules.

A common misconception arrived at when first thinking or theorizing about the conception of a science of "human thermodynamics", is to believe that there are some sort of special "laws of human thermodynamics". The first two arrive at this view was English physicist Charles Galton Darwin in his 1952 book The Next Million Years. [1]

Misconstrued ideas about the laws and human life
In human thermodynamics, a common misconception is that there are some sort of "special" laws of human thermodynamics yet to be discovered or formulated, that in some way differ from the standard laws. English physicist Charles Galton Darwin, for instance, in his 1952 book The Next Million Years after correctly defining human beings to be "human molecules" such that the principles of thermodynamics govern their past and future evolution, then incorrectly reasoned in conclusion that "if we determine ‘some kind of laws of human thermodynamics’ we shall be more successful in doing good in the world." Moreover, he concludes by saying that "I am going to try to see what these laws of human thermodynamics are; of course they cannot be expected to have the hard outline of the laws of physical science, but still I think some of them can be given a fairly definite form."

Curiously, he reasons that it will be up to "someone more skilled in biology than he is to perfect, or perhaps correct, his attempts at a possible formulation of the laws of human thermodynamics." Correctly, to clarify, knowing that biology is a softer science (mathematically speaking), he should have said that this task would soon likely be completed by someone more skilled in a harder science such as physical chemistry or chemical thermodynamics. Very few publications in thermodynamics ever come from the biologists.

In a similar manner, in the 1999 book Milton's Progress by Forbes Allan, in a conversation between to scientists we find: "It's just human thermodynamics, my friend," John said stiffly, "you're inside the jaws of laws beyond your ken." That's an acer poem, he decided, which nicely sums up the plight of humankind and the worthlessness of being. "Maybe I've stumbled on a new law of physics!" it flashed on him suddenly: "-- that life-driven anti-entropic processes are an integral component of all second law activities and provide an engine with which to accelerate the overall degradation of energy into heat! ... Or wouldn't that be a 'fourth' law of thermodynamics? ..." [2]

Likewise, in the 2002 article "Socio-thermodynamics: integration and segregation in population" by German physicist Ingo Müller, we find a discussion of entropy of mixing, i.e. the change in entropy when different species are mixed, and what Müller calls the first and second law of socio-thermodynamics found in conjunction with discussions on the working and heating aspects of human life. [3]

In sum, this logic about hypothetical human thermodynamic laws, to note, is an incorrect point of view. The laws of thermodynamics are one and the same for all atomic structures, regardless of molecular size or complexity level. Human social system are described as hierarchically-structured, substrate-attached, dynamical systems of self-dividing, evolving collections of human molecules.

References
1. Darwin, Charles G. (1952). The Next Million Years (pg. 26), (Scribd). London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
2. Allan, Forbes. (1999). Milton's Progress, Chapter 21, Rowanlea Grove Press.
3. Müller, Ingo. (2002). Socio-thermodynamics – integration and segregation in a population, P: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 14, 384-404, 2002.