How Do Life, Economy and Other Complex Systems Escape the Heat Death?

The primordial confrontation underlying the existence of our Universe can be conceived as the battle between entropy and complexity. The law of ever-increasing entropy (Boltzmann H-theorem) evokes an irreversible, one-directional evolution (or rather involution) going uniformly and monotonically fro...

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Main Authors: Sorin Solomon, Natasa Golo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/3/1687