Coherence, Brain Evolution, and the Unity of Consciousness: The evolution of Planetary Consciousness in the Light of Brain Coherence Research

Thermodynamics, entropy and disorder in futures studies

“…For now though, the breadth of the problem can be appreciated by considering some of the sources that have been found to refer to or make use of the second law in ways that are inconsistent with the current best understanding of this science. These include: in the popular or transdisciplinary scientific 1 literature Capra [7], Georgescu-Roegen [15], Rifkin [40], Prigogine and Stengers [39], Daly [11], Hawking [17] and Shro¨dinger [43]; in the journal Ecological Economics, Gillet [16], Lozada [35], Krysiak [25], Ayres [1] and Ka˚berger and Ma˚nsson [21]; in recent issues of Futures, Fricker [13], Lawn [34] and Yea [52]; in the Journal of Futures Studies, Viik [50]; in the journal World Futures, Min [36], Brier [5], Knyazeva [23], Naveh [38], Robertson [41], Ceruti and Pievani [8], Colamonico [9], Montecucco [37] and Sahtouris [42]; elsewhere in futuresspecific literature, Bell [2] and Jones [19,20].…”