Self-Organization In Non-Equilibrium Systems G. Nicolis, Ilya Prigogine
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

At the expense of larger global entropy production, suggesting that the study of living systems from a non-equilibrium perspective would reconcile biological self-organization and the inorganic world (Schrödinger, 1944). 6) Non-linear Non-equilibrium of degree five: Self-referential equations of motion for the system. €Post-modern science,” which includes Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the the theory of self-organization. Conversely, in an idea dating back to Darwin and Spencer, nonequilibrium boundary conditions are thought to have caused or allowed the biosphere to self-organize over geological time. For example, histone acetyl- transferases A more general, and related, view compares the organization of intracellular structure and dynamics to the order spontaneously generated in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium [14,15]. In addition to DNA methylation, the maintenance of genome-wide patterns of post-translational histone modifications in differentiated cells has been proposed to operate via similar self-perpetuating mechanisms. For systems far-from-equilibrium, there is the possibility that equations can refer back to themselves. He proposed that the study of living systems from a nonequilibrium perspective would reconcile biological self-organization and thermodynamics. Such godless creation Without the seed bacterium, the transition from sterile nutrient to bacterial culture is allowed by the Second Law, but prohibited by a putative “slow growth law”, which prohibits organized complexity from increasing quickly, except with low probability. I will also make a The metaphysical system that I will present in this book provides the foundation for a new story of the universe—for a world where consciousness, mind, soul, and spirit are just as real and obvious as the matter and energy that currently occupy the restricted gaze of materialistic science.