Convergence Edge 1: Gradient Dissipation ↔ Thermoeconomics
C01 (Gradient Dissipation) recurs-with C19 (Thermoeconomics)
Shared pattern: Sustained order requires throughput; complex systems are entropy-exporting engines; economic value tracks available energy
Domain distance: Physics → Economics (maximum — historically hostile disciplinary boundaries)
Derivation independence: HIGH. Prigogine (thermodynamics, Brussels) derived dissipative structures from chemical kinetics. Georgescu-Roegen (economics, Vanderbilt) derived the entropy-economics connection from reading Boltzmann independently. Odum (ecology, Florida) derived emergy from ecosystem energetics. No borrowing chain.
Convergence strength (1–10): 8
Note: The convergence is not that “economics uses energy” — it is that economic order follows the same thermodynamic binding constraint as biological and physical order. The pattern is: gradient consumption → structure.
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Corpus map
- C01 (Gradient Dissipation): C01 in the Encyclopedia · C01 in the Catalogue
- C19 (Thermoeconomics): C19 in the Encyclopedia · C19 in the Catalogue
- Convergence edges: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10
- Catalogue hub: Convergence Catalogue — Public Article · The Schema