My work on Pink Noise included much research, exposing me to some very interesting science, which I will attempt to summarize here. We live during exciting times, at the beginning of another major scientific revolution.
Not that long ago, if anyone had asked me what was the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th century, I would have been stumped, not knowing which scientific discipline to favor: physics, genetics, computer science? Now, I wouldn’t hesitate a bit before naming Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) and his discovery of spontaneous self-organization in systems far from equilibrium—because, among other things, it spares me from having to choose between so many worthy scientific disciplines: Prigogine’s discovery concerns them all.
To most people, the term evolution is associated exclusively with Charles Darwin and biology. Prigogine extended the evolutionary approach to many other fields of science.