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Ilya Prigogine,

stochastic population dynamics of interacting, strategic, heterogeneous agents.

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

and introduce ideas of renormalization group flows to the stochastic dynamics of finite populations

non-equilibrium physics).

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far-from-equilibrium phase transitions can be predicted in a probabilistic sense using the emerging mathematical tools of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics,