Maibom, Marc: Dissipative Structures and the Persistence Constraint - Prigogine's Self-Organization as an Instantiation of the LP Structure

Prigogine's theory of dissipative structures describes how physical systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium can maintain ordered states through continuous energy dissipation. This paper shows that dissipative structures are a physical instantiation of the La Profilée persistence structure. We demonstrate that the three components of any dissipative structure — the stabilizing constraint that defines its ordered state, the dissipative process that carries transformation, and the coupling betwe