Questions About Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

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Can a non-physicist read this and get something out of it? Or do you need a hefty science background?

Blaine Snow Well, I'm not a trained scientist and had a tough time reading it back in the late 1980s even though it was written for the layperson without math, ph…moreWell, I'm not a trained scientist and had a tough time reading it back in the late 1980s even though it was written for the layperson without math, physics, and chemistry technicalities. BUT, there's a lot of very important history and philosophy of science questions addressed in it, specifically how Newtonian science and the world of modern physics both continue to believe in the unreality of time, irreversibility, and their role in evolution. Prigogine's ideas are so important that I advise sticking it out and doing everything you can to understand as much as you can for they really amount to a new vision of science, one that is much more human, one that re-enchants the disenchantment of traditional science. Make no mistake, the traditional science worldview still reigns today (2017) but the self-organizing, complex systems view is in direct competition with it. You might say Prigogine is to Einstein what Einstein was to Newton... a whole new paradigm of thought. (less)

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How do you define "order"?

Gayle Weyher Adding work in open systems

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