It is for this reason that courage, resilience, perseverance, mature defense, or transformational coping, the dissipative structures of the mind, are so essential.
The Nobel Prize winning chemist Ilya Prigozhin calls physical systems that harness energy, which otherwise would be dispersed and lost in random motion, dissipative structures.
Once the energy dissipation matches the energy input from the wind, the waves have reached their maximum size and this is known as a fully developed sea.
The Power of Dissipative Structures One fact that does seem clear, however, is that the ability to make order out of chaos is not unique to psychological processes.
For example, the entire vegetable kingdom on our planet is a huge dissipative structure because it feeds on light, which normally would be a useless by-product of the sun's combustion.
And because without plants there would be no animals, all life on Earth is ultimately made possible by dissipative structures that capture chaos and shape it into a more complex order.
The large canopies also form a web that dissipates energy and filters out particles from the flow that settle, then, in the seafloor, protected from being resuspended by the protective cover of the canopy.
29. Question: What is the key factor to consider when choosing a PCB material for high - frequency applications in PCBA? Answer: Low dielectric constant and low dissipation factor to minimize signal loss.
What transforms the consequences of a traumatic event into a challenge that gives meaning to life is what in the previous chapter was called a dissipative structure or the ability to draw order from disorder.