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> In a universe ruled by entropy
Are we so sure about that? What about self-winding/self-organizing systems and the sciences of complexity? There are subtler aspect of the material realm, that under certain circumstances, propel themselves into states of higher order, higher complexity, and higher organization. Under certain circumstances matter will “wind itself up” into states of higher order. Whenever material processes become very chaotic and “far from equilibrium,” they tend under their own power to escape chaos by transforming it into a higher and more structured order—commonly called “order out of chaos.”
In these material systems the arrow of time is pointed in the other direction, namely, to higher order and higher structural organization. See General System Theory (Bertalanffy, Weiss), cybernetics (Wiener), nonequilibrium thermodynamics (Prigogine), cellular automata theory (von Neumann), catastrophe theory (Thom), autopoietic system theory (Maturana and Varela), dynamic systems theory (Shaw, Abraham), and chaos theories, among others.
