Reddit reviews Exploring Complexity: An Introduction

In the context of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, pattern formation in complex systems and order at the edge of chaos, several introductory/intermediate books come to mind, in particular from the Brussels' school. For a start one could go with

Prigogine - The End of Certainty

Nicolis, Prigogine - Exploring Complexity

Kauffman - The Origins of Order

For something directly from one of the giant of chaos theory, maybe one could go with

Lorenz - The Essence of Chaos

Started thinking about complexity before it went mainstream on exurb1a channel.

Couple things I wanted to point out about this topic:

1. Besides being the most complex system in the world, humanity is also a great producer of complexity. Our biological firmware constantly tells us to have sex and create new structuraly-complex humans. We are obsessed with technological progress and we do not want to stop. All in the name of complexity. Which brings us to:
   
   
2. We should not separate humanity from universe. We are part of it, and we are just another step on creating complexity in it. Baryons → Atoms → Molucles → Life → Brain → ?. Each step was designed to create next one, so are we.
   
   
3. There is a cool book on if, if you want to get into theoretical mechanics and stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Complexity-Introduction-Gregoire-Nicolis/dp/0716718596
   Also this article: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=762
   
   
4. If all stars and stuff(baryonic matter) will burn down, entropy will increase only by ~1%(this is actually from the book above). So universe is pretty much almost done with entropy creation.