Is Philosophy Evolving as a Dissipative Structure??

Abstract

Philosophy can be seen either as a multi-faceted cultural artifact, like music and cooking, or as a specific human endeavour, a Herculean task of penetration into our ignorance, with its breakthroughs and setbacks and which began, as anthropologists postulate, when the "Homo faber" created the first cut flint. Either way, progress in philosophy is associated with indefinite digging by all of us towards the centre of knowledge - truth, and/or driven by the aesthetic intuition (creative imagination) of a few to crack the 'cosmic egg' or the sound of silence. Here I propose a view of philosophy and of its evolution, a vision borrowed from science, that of a dissipative structure.