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Information, 17-18, 250,
278-79, 283, 295, 297-98
Initial conditions (or state), 61 ,
68, 75, 121, 124, 128, 129,
139-40, 142, 147, 248,
261 -67, 270-7 1, 276, 278-79,
295, 310
Innovation, psychological
process of, xxiv
Innovative becoming,
philosophy of, 94
Instability, dynamic, 73,
268-72, 276, 300; chemical,
144-53; thermodynamic,
141-42; threshold, 146, 147,
160
Insects, self-aggregation of,
181-86
Integrable systems, 71-72, 74,
264-65, 302
Internal time, 272-73, 289
Intrinsically irreversible
systems, 275-77, 289
Intrinsically random systems,
274-76, 289
Intuition, 80, 91, 92
Irreversibility, xx, xxi, xxvii,
xxviii, 7-9, 63, 115;
acceptance by physics of,
208-9; and biology, 128, 175;
in chemistry, 131, 137, 177;
controversy over, 15-16;
cultural context of
incorporation into physics of,
309- 10; and dynamics of
correlations, 280-85 ; Einstein
on, 294-95; and ensemble
theory, 250; in evolution, 128,
189; formulation of theory of,
105, 107, 117-2l; and limits
of classical concepts, 261-64;
and matter-light interaction,
219; measurement and, 228;
microscopic theory of, 242,
257-59, 285-86, 288-90, 310;
probability and, 16, 124, 125,
233-40; quantitative
expression of, Ill; from
randomness to, 272-77; rate
of, 135; in reciprocity
relations, 138; as source of
order, 15, 292; subjective
interpretation of, 25 1-52; as
symmetry-breaking process,
260-6 1; in thermodynamics,
12; see also Arrow of time;
Entropy
Isomerization reaction, 165
Jammer, M., 329n
Jordan, 220
Joule, James Prescott, 108-9
Kant, Immanuel, 79, 80, 85-89,
93, 99, 214
Kauffman, S. A., 172
Kepler, Johannes, 49, 57, 67,
307
Keynes, Lord, 319n
Kierkegaard, Soren, 79
Kinetic energy, 69-7 1, 90, 107,
261
Kinetics, chemical , 132-34
Kirchoff, Gustav, %
Knight, 321 n
Koestler, Arthur, 32, 34-35
Kolmogoroff, 266
Kothari, D. S., 293
Koyre, Alexandre, 5, 32, 35-36,
62, 317n, 319n
Kuhn, Thomas, 307-9, 320n,
329n
Lagrange, Comte Joseph Louis,
52, %, 104, 324n
Laminar flow, 141-42, 303
Laplace, Marquis Pierre Simon
de, xiii, 28, 52, 54, 66, 67,
115, 323n; Fourier criticized
by, 104
Laplace's demon, 75-77, 87,
27 1
Large numbers, law of, 14, 178,
180
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 2&,
109