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Ilya Prigogine

scientist · 7 mentions across 3 readings

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Prigogine appears as a foundational figure in chaos theory discourse, though these excerpts don't directly cite him—he's invoked implicitly through Gleick's popular account that the readings critique for lacking philosophical depth. His work on dissipative structures and irreversibility in thermodynamics provides the scientific substrate for understanding how systems generate complexity and novelty, concepts the course appears to leverage when discussing emergence, noise, and lines of flight that escape deterministic control. His bridge between physics and creativity (the "creative act" of nature itself) becomes relevant to how the seminar thinks about AI systems and artistic agency as potentially generative rather than merely algorithmic.

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