From Chaos to Order -- A New Dialogue Between Humans and Nature (Open Humanities)

Author: (Belgian) Prigogine, (French) Stengers, translated by Zeng Qinghong, Shen Xiaofeng
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book is an important work on the philosophical issues of contemporary natural science, co-authored by the internationally renowned scientist and Nobel laureate Professor Prigogine and Dr. Stengers. Based on the new achievements in the development of natural science, especially the new progress in the theory of self-organization of non-equilibrium systems such as dissipative structures, the authors discuss a series of important issues in nature, including reversibility and irreversibility, determinism and randomness, simplicity and complexity, evolution and degradation, order and disorder. They provide a new interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics, elaborate the significance of the "arrow of time," summarize the history of the development of natural science over nearly three hundred years, and propose that the various branches of natural science, natural science and the humanities, as well as the cultural traditions of China and the West, should be integrated to form a new scientific and natural worldview.