Year: 2022

CONSEQUENCES. “Several empirical generalizations discovered in studies of far-from-equilibrium systems are especially relevant for the discussion that follows.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

FIRST CONSEQUENCE. “First, a sufficiently intense flow of energy/matter through an open physicochemical system of interacting components naturally and spontaneously leads to the emergence of interdependent fluxes and gradients within the system, with concomitant dynamic compartmentalization of the components of the system in space and time.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

SECOND CONSEQUENCE. “Second, the emergence of macroscopic order is a highly nonlinear, cooperative process. When a critical threshold value of flow rate is exceeded, the system spontaneously self-organizes into interdependent and interconnected macrostructures-processes, in a phase transition-like manner. The macrostructures-processes emerging in far-from-equilibrium conditions are of a steady-state nature.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THE STRUCTURE PERSISTS. “That is, what is actually preserved and evolves over relevant timescales is an organization of relationships between interacting components (an organizational form) but not physical components comprising a given macrostructure. Members come and go, but the organization persists.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

INTERCONNECTED COSMOS. “This means that, within a nonequilibrium system of energy/matter flow/circulation, everything is connected to everything else through shared microcomponents flowing through and mediating the emergence, evolution, and transformation of diverse organizational forms comprising the system.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THIRD CONSEQUENCE. “Third, the degree of complexity and order within a self-organizing nonequilibrium system and the rate of energy/matter passing through the system correlate in a mutually defining manner.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THE DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY. “A relatively higher degree of complexity and order requires and, at the same time, supports a relatively higher rate of energy/matter flow. Increasing the rate of energy/matter flow normally leads to a stepwise increase in relative complexity and order within an evolving nonequilibrium system.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT GRADIENTS. “As the first postulate, let us assume that, at the fundamental level, the energy/matter comprising the Universe is far from equilibrium, that it exists as an evolving flow, and that the energy/matter comprising and flowing through the Universe spontaneously self-organizes on multiple spatiotemporal scales into metastable, interconverting flow/circulation patterns (organizational forms).” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

INTERCONVERTING PATTERNS. “These forms are manifested at the corresponding levels of the organizational hierarchy as elementary particles, atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, ecosystems (including human organizations and economies), planetary and stellar systems, galaxies, and so forth. All of the scale-specific manifestations/forms of flowing energy/matter are thus interconnected and co-evolve as a nested set of self-organizing and interdependent structures-processes.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

MEMBERS COME AND GO. “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” (William Butler Yeats). https://lnkd.in/eAWqHjFR View in LinkedIn