The end of certainty
by Ilya Prigogine · first published 1997
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Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine discusses the irreversibility of time and his findings impact on the laws of physics.
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…biggest issue with Jeremey England is that he's basically rehashing Ilya Prigogine's ideas. Read Prigogine's books "order out of chaos", " Exploring complexity: An introduction" (best one), and less so "The End of Certainty". Prigogine won the Nobel prize for his "discovery" of dissipative structures, and he was a driving force in the ideas behind complexity theory. Wolfram's early work was full of references to Prigogine,…
on “A New Physics Theory of Life” ↗> The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature, Prigogine contends that determinism is no longer a viable scientific belief: "The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in…
on “The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity” ↗