As and when a barrel of oil is a complex system then the analogy might
hold, but of course it isn't. I'm not going to attempt to summarize
Prigogine's ideas in a short message but take it up with him - he can
certainly punch his weight in intellectual terms and that is Nobel Prize
winner for this stuff.

David Byrne
Dept of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Durham
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