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In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined. Contrary to globalisation and the appar...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5352#t=toc |
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In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined. Contrary to globalisation and the apparent contemporary mass culture society, individual behaviour is beginning to increasingly become the key factor which governs the evolution of both the world and society as a whole. It is a message that challenges existing widespread views, implicitly or explicitly, through mass communication; moreover the importance of the individual's actions implies a reflection of each person on the responsibilities that each one assumes when taking or acting upon a decision. This responsibility is associated with the freedom of thought as well as a critical analysis of fashions, customs, preconceived ideas, and ideologies, externally imposed: exactly contrary to the ideas of those who wish us to be "perfect consumers" in a world dominated only by monetary wealth. Challenging this drive towards the elimination of freedom of thought in the individual is now imperative if we are to save man and his planet from catastrophe, which seems to be ever imminent and (unfortunately) irreversible. This last book of Ilya Prigogine provides a small, disputable, but nonetheless valuable contribution towards that end. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii,145pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789812775382 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | N02 |
| Contents: | Ilya Prigogine and the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry / Ioannis Antoniou -- Is future given? Changes in our description of nature / Ilya Prigogine's lecture at the National Technical University of Athens -- Laws of nature and time symmetry breaking / I. Prigogine and I. Antoniou -- Time in non-equilibrium physics / discussion of Ilya Prigogine with Theodore Christidis -- Time in the epistemology of complexity / discussion of Ilya Prigogine with Ioannis Zisis -- Internet and Life / discussion of Ilya Prigogine with Maria Adamidou -- Epilogue / Ioannis Antoniou -- References -- In memorium: farewell to Ilya Prigogine / Ioannis Antoniou -- Curriculum vitae of Ilya Prigogine. |