title: Chemical self-organization, complexification, and process metaphysics.
abstract: Recognizing the self-activity of matter through complexification can lead to seeing evolution as a process of union. This process approach emphasizes a metaphysics of becoming rather than of being. Advances in the science of thermodynamics lead to understanding chemical self-organization as a stage in this process of complexification.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Department, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore 21210, USA. jsalmon@loyola.edu
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Salmon