The science of chaos, curiously, has made a vital contribution to improving our understanding of the world. It was thought that life and intelligence it was pure coincidence but now we know that matter, blind in the balance, says potential far impossible under other conditions the same whenever there is the necessary energy input . With laws that govern our only hope was not long enough for stars to create the atoms necessary for life and is progressing through increasingly sophisticated agencies and adapted to the environment more efficiently, allowing it to appear the intelligence evolved species like ours.
If life and intelligence are printed in their own laws that govern the possibility of extraterrestrial life and intelligence are insured. Ilya Prigogine received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for his contribution to the knowledge of dissipative structures in the physical world, ie the study of the emergence of order in conditions far from equilibrium. The term dissipative structure seeks to represent the association of ideas of order and dissipation. The new bottom line is that the dissipation of energy and matter, which is usually associated with the notion of loss and evolution towards disorder, becomes far from equilibrium, a source of order. These structures are the basis of life and in them the order was established based on nonlinear evolution equations, of much greater complexity near equilibrium where the solutions are much simpler and can be linearized.
Potential: Far
balance there are many solutions that there are potential near equilibrium. This wealth can lead us better to understand complex phenomena such as climate history of Earth and life itself. All this is linked to a nonequilibrium structure that was incomprehensible from an ancient perspective: non-equilibrium is not only degradation, but also construction. Neither time nor repetitive mechanical-degradation time of classical thermodynamics can explain the wealth of the world as we see it. Nature invents. Nothing is reversible. And the temporal dimension is far from exhausted the mathematical concept of absolute time, as the abstract conception of classical mechanics. In simple non-chaotic systems the attractor, a kind of representation of its dynamic variables is a simple geometric figure or a point, while in the chaotic are extraordinary complexity figures called strange attractors. Of this complexity can be drawn endless possibilities for the future evolution of the system.
mechanisms organization in dissipative structures can only occur when the external environment remains, by providing energy, the system away from equilibrium. The structure is created and maintained through the exchange of energy with the outside. So we called dissipative structures. Under certain conditions external criticism, the natural fluctuations and constant trace of a system can, instead of diminishing, amplified and drag the system in one direction or another. The branch of the fork that will choose the system is unpredictable, because the phenomenon is random and seems to chance. The second law, order and disorder:
In an isolated system, the second law of thermodynamics tells us that disorder, entropy inevitably increases, but that does not prevent a part of that system with a contribution of energy and matter in their environment to increase its order and reduce its entropy. The total entropy is still increasing, but that part of the system is organized at the expense of increasing disorder around them. That's the essential story of living organisms. When external conditions change and become extreme the body is in crisis and bifurcation appear random phenomena that give options for survival. The system chooses one of the options that they adapt to new conditions. If you choose it again to find a period of stability governed by the order, if you re-enter again crisis disorder and the new election.
to Prigogine, science thought that life was a kind of chance, a rare phenomenon difficult to play, but we have learned that Prigogine field potential far from equilibrium manifests itself impossible in other conditions. The intuition that it was possible to develop a general thermodynamics of living systems or open and closed systems, isolated and inert, Ilya Prigogine earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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