Order out of chaos
by Ilya Prigogine · first published 1984
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…the Rings had been written by Jerry Bruckheimer and Spider Jerusalem. Into the cool, Sagan and Schnieder : about complexity and thermodynamics. Written for a layperson, I still learned a lot from it. Order out of Chaos, Prigogine and Stengers : More thermo, also written for lay audience, also learned a lot from it. Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions, L. Artsimovich : Of all the plasma physics books I have read (many)…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?” ↗"What is Life", by E. Schroedinger is referenced in the article and covers these topics. "Order out of Chaos" by Prigogine and Stengers, and "Into the Cool" by Sagan and Schneider would also be decent recommendations.
on “How Life and Death Spring from Disorder” ↗…(the bulk) is mysticism and always-valid personal experience. --- “Whatever we call reality, it is revealed to us only through the active construction in which we participate.” – Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (1984)
on “The physicalization of metamathematics and the implications for its foundations” ↗Oh I didn't notice you were getting downvoted up there in the parent comment, it wasn't me! :) Anyway, I'm now going back to read Prigogine's book, Order Out of Chaos. It's also brought me around to think and study more about self-organization and emergent properties of complex systems. About "A New Physics Theory of Life", and the idea that life exists because "the…
on “Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?” ↗Ilya Prigogine wrote a lot about this, see eg Order Out of Chaos. He won the Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Boltzmann had originally tried to prove that the second law is a mechanical (statistical) fact and several others tried…
on “Time is a dimension, but not like space” ↗