…people like Ralph Abraham, with his theory of dynamics, and Ilya Pregojin, with his non equilibrium thermodynamics, and Manfred Eigen, with his autocatalytic hypercycles. These are interesting new approaches because they don't predict end states from initial…

…of order. This is the pergosian principle that systems actually seek higher states of order. This is he and Manfred Eigen, and that crowd coined the phrase dissipative structure. Dissipative structures are these special situations which arise in nature where…