SISTEME DEPARTE DE ECHILIBRU – EVOLUȚIE ȘI IREVERSIBILITATE
FAR-FROM-EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS – EVOLUTION AND IRREVERSIBILITY

Summary/Abstract: In this paper my aim is to offer a philosophical reconstruction of the transition from the concept of deterministic system to that of systems far from equilibrium, simultaneously with the change of the framework of presuppositions specific to a deterministic metaphysics with that of a probabilistic metaphysics. The "naturalization" of the system concept has led scientists to be concerned with identifying and describing socalled natural systems. The deepening and expansion of research, first in physics, by moving from mechanics to thermodynamics, then by moving from the physical world to the living world and to society, brought into focus the concept of a self-regulating system, later on that of a system far from equilibrum. This is how we arrived at the analysis of irreversible, non-linear processes, characterized by bifurcations and restructuring. Contemporary science has assimilated this new conceptual scheme that provides good epistemological guidance in complexity research.

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