vol 7: Notes
2005
Sunday 12 June
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[Notebook: DB 57 Language]
[Sunday 12 June 2005 - Saturday 18 June 2005]
[page 161]
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We are each an actual point in human space, the space of all possible humans.
Because this space is vast and we are few, we are far apart, like the integers among the reals, or the alphabet of any set of text. Shannon on distinction again.
[page 162]
Each point is a lifetime, beginning at conception and ending at death.
The spectrum runs from total selfishness to total otherishness, but neither extreme is viable. We are tarts f the whole and must communication with the world to survive. Physically we are dissipative structures (Prigogine). Prigogine
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Saturday 18 June 2005
Books
| Prigogine, Ilya , From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences, Freeman 1980 Jacket: 'How has order emerged from chaos? In this book, intended for the general reader with some background in physical chemistry and thermodynamics, Ilya Prigogine shows how systems far from equilibrium evolve elaborate structures: patterns of circulation in the atmosphere, formation and propagation of chemical waves, the aggregation of single-celled animals. In an effort to understand these phenomena, he explores the philosophical implications of the work that won him the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.' Amazon back |
| Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature, Bantam 1984 Foreword: 'Order Out of Chaos is a brilliant, demanding, dazzling book -- challenging for all and richly rewarding for the attentive reader. It is a book to study, to savour, to reread -- and to question yet again. It places science and humanity back in a world where ceteris paribus is a myth -- a world in which other things are seldom held steady, equal or unchanging. In short it projects science into today's revolutionary world of instability, disequilibrium and turbulence. In so doing, it serves the highest creative function -- it helps us create fresh order.' Alvin Toffler, xxvi Amazon back |
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