Chaos & Order
Today鈥檚 world, if anything, is defined by constant change. As humans, we often seek knowledge and information in order to apply meaning to the random realities of life. This is pursued through the creation of actions, laws, and structures, which aid in this understanding. It鈥檚 an eternal attempt to ease chaos鈥 inherent tension and somehow create a sense of balance in the perceived disorder.
Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine's chaos theory arises from his success in finding a mathematical model in entropy. In his book 鈥極rder out of Chaos鈥 (1980) Prigogine and philosopher Isabelle Stengers create a new dialogue between man and nature by claiming that 鈥 Chaos is the order that we don鈥檛 know鈥. In this, he summarised the theory that in biological and sociological systems, evolution does not lead to chaos, as classical thermodynamics seems to teach, but to ever-increasing organization.
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Today鈥檚 world, if anything, is defined by constant change. As humans, we often seek knowledge and information in order to apply meaning to the random realities of life. This is pursued through the creation of actions, laws, and structures, which aid in this understanding. It鈥檚 an eternal attempt to ease chaos鈥 inherent tension and somehow create a sense of balance in the perceived disorder.
Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine's chaos theory arises from his success in finding a mathematical model in entropy. In his book 鈥極rder out of Chaos鈥 (1980) Prigogine and philosopher Isabelle Stengers create a new dialogue between man and nature by claiming that 鈥 Chaos is the order that we don鈥檛 know鈥. In this, he summarised the theory that in biological and sociological systems, evolution does not lead to chaos, as classical thermodynamics seems to teach, but to ever-increasing organization.