Ilya Prigogine, Temps à devenir, à propos de l’histoire du temps, 2016

The text of Temps à devenir, à propos de l’histoire du temps is from a conference given at the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec in 1993, in which the scientist Ilya Prigogine proposes a concept of time that is not a mere variable for measurement, but rather a true dimension of existence whose greatest property would be its irreversibility. For if it does not allow us to correct our errors, it is the most powerful motor by which the universe is capable of developing complex systems, including all the diversity of life. Time is the space in which life and the universe continuously invent the new. Prigogine, a philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, investigated these complex systems which serve as the points of departure in his thought.