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Out of Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson.
"A dissipative structure is highly complex and therefore highly unstable. The more complex it is, the more unstable it is, mathematically; and the more unstable, the more likely it is to change - to evolve.
All dissipative structures are teetering, perpetually, between self-destruction and re-organization on a higher level of information (coherence).
If that sounds grim, it isn't really. Prigogine's math is highly optimistic. He shows that the more complex structures are mathematically more likely, much more likely, to "dissipate" into higher coherence than into self-destruction."