All dissipative structures are teetering, perpetually, between self-destruction and re-organization on a higher level of information (coherence). If that sounds grim, it isn’t really. Prigogine’s math is highly optimistic, He shows that the more complex structures — such as our world-round human society today, midway between Second Wave indust-reality and the emerging Third Wave — are mathematically more likely, much more likely, to “dissipate” into higher coherence than into self-destruction.
