{"product_id":"prigogine-and-the-creative-cosmos-time-chaos-and-the-birth-of-order-9798198241930","title":"Prigogine and the Creative Cosmos: Time, Chaos, and the Birth of Order","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Clayton Louis Turnage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: System Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if chaos is not the enemy of order-but one of its hidden sources?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, science often imagined the universe as a machine: predictable, reversible, and slowly running down toward disorder. Time was treated as a background measurement, entropy as a sentence of decay, and life as a strange exception in an otherwise mechanical cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlya Prigogine changed that picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrigogine and the Creative Cosmos: Time, Chaos, and the Birth of Order\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Clayton Louis Turnage explores the revolutionary science and philosophy of one of the twentieth century's most important thinkers of time, complexity, and non-equilibrium systems. Prigogine showed that nature's most creative regions are not always calm, balanced, and stable. They often exist \u003cb\u003efar from equilibrium\u003c\/b\u003e, where energy flows, instability grows, fluctuations matter, and new forms of order can emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA flame, a hurricane, a living cell, a brain, a civilization-each survives not by escaping entropy, but by feeding on flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes readers into the world of \u003cb\u003edissipative structures\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eirreversible time\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003echaos\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eself-organization\u003c\/b\u003e, and the strange birth of order from instability. It also examines the controversies surrounding Prigogine's bold claims: Was he a visionary who gave science a new image of reality, or did he sometimes push thermodynamics too far into philosophy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for a popular science audience, this volume connects Prigogine's ideas to Darwin, Boltzmann, Einstein, Bergson, Whitehead, consciousness, information, and \u003cb\u003eConscious Computational Cosmology (CCC)\u003c\/b\u003e. It asks whether the universe is best understood not as a finished machine, but as an unfinished creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf time is real, then the future is not merely waiting to be discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is still being born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969105379479,"sku":"9798198241930","price":1123.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198241930.webp?v=1782920475","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/prigogine-and-the-creative-cosmos-time-chaos-and-the-birth-of-order-9798198241930","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}