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Ilya Prigogine
scientist · 7 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Prigogine appears as a foundational figure for understanding chaos and far-from-equilibrium systems, though the course reading treats him critically—citing James Gleick's popular account of chaos theory while lamenting its lack of philosophical depth and failure to engage Prigogine's work within broader mythological or Eastern contexts. His theories of dissipative structures and irreversibility become crucial for conceptualizing systems that generate order and behavior beyond deterministic control, relevant to how the course frames noise, emergence, and desire as escape routes from binary machine logic.
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