Dissipative structures
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The Wikipedia site doesn't tell the whole story except there are hints from the books cited were published in 1972, 1982 and 2000, and that the last book has no customer reviews. Most physicists are polite, but for a candid assessment from a physicist who is an expert on self-organization, see Cosma Shalizi's two reviews on these subjects:
What's wrong with Varela, Prigogine, "Dissipative Structures", Poesis
