You put your finger on it. He's intentionally leaving out Prigogine as the main thinker behind these ideas. In fact, most of what he is saying is a rehash from the book. The main contribution by England is his idea of replicators as entropy minimizers1 in a closed system. However, his proof for this is a simulation of a simulation. Prigogine came up with the Brusselator, which is essentially the same theoretical model England is proposing for chemical systems. His points about the arrow of time are just the same points Prigogine made, without any attribution. Prigogine's reputation is in tatters now, and England could help rebuild it. Instead, he's going the non-humble path....
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You put your finger on it. He's intentionally leaving out Prigogine as the main thinker behind these ideas. In fact, most of what he is saying is a rehash from the book. The main contribution by England is his idea of replicators as entropy minimizers1 in a closed system. However, his proof for this is a simulation of a simulation. Prigogine came up with the Brusselator, which is essentially the same theoretical model England is proposing for chemical systems. His points about the arrow of time are just the same points Prigogine made, without any attribution. Prigogine's reputation is in tatters now, and England could help rebuild it. Instead, he's going the non-humble path....