dissipative

At the core of the theory is a scalar coherence field, \xi(x,t), whose evolution is intrinsically dissipative.

Life is a thermodynamically dissipative structure, which means that it cannot persist without having both inputs and outputs at the same time.

Viewing humans as dissipative structures designed to maximize entropy production really explains a lot about how the world works.

General Relativity appears as the macroscopic limit of a deeper dissipative structure, with a built-in thermodynamic arrow of time.

Is there much overlap between these scaling laws and dissipative structures in thermodynamics and/or systems theory?

Efficiency is how much RF power is lost to dissipative mechanisms in the antenna compared to how much is actually radiated.

The subsequent motion of the ball may be damped, for example, by including a friction or dissipative term in the simulation.

Lucky it is possible to create social and economic systems that use cooperation to produce better individual and group utility (dissipative structures).

Resistance is inherently dissipative, so there is no coherent path the electron can take.

I wonder if they used static-dissipative/ESD-safe plastic, as pure polypropylene is good insulator and easily builds up a static charge.

Look up Ilya Prigogine, self-organizing systems, and dissipative systems.

That's a fundamental principle of dissipative systems.

The goal isn't to create "Life." The goal is to create a Dissipative Structure that resists the natural decay of the context window.

Prigogine won the Nobel prize for his "discovery" of dissipative structures, and he was a driving force in the ideas behind complexity theory.

The concepts used here also have names - just ask google or wikipedia for "dissipative systems/structures" and "stigmergy".

I wrote a short preprint proposing a “beacon” design principle for finite-closure behavior in dissipative dynamics.