Chemical self-organization, complexification, and process metaphysics.
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.
Salmon
James F
JF
Chemistry Department, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore 21210, USA. jsalmon@loyola.edu