In human thermodynamics, Richard L. Coren (1932-) is American electrical engineering and computer scientist noted for his 1998 cybernetics theory of evolution, in which he mixes thermodynamics, paleontology, and information theory to argue that evolution, from the big bang to the present civilization, is single coherent process, in the form of what he calls “evolutionary trajectories”. [1]
In his 2006 book God and Science Among the Infinities, Coren attempts to use complexity theory, intermixed with bits of thermodynamics (citing: Jeffrey Wicken, James Kay, Eric Schneider, Ilya Prigogine, and Rod Swenson), such as Bénard cells, to argue that God originated in the mathematical concept of infinities.
Education
Coren completed his PhD at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He is currently a professor emeritus at Drexel University. His main research focus has been in electromagnetic fields, antennas, shielding, and radio frequency interference. In the last ten years, his focus has been on the cybernetics of evolving systems. [2]
References
1. Coren, Richard L. (1998). Evolutionary Trajectory: the Growth of Information in the History and Future of Earth (ch. 7: Entropy, pgs 111-26). CRC Press.
2. Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering – Drexel University, Catalog 2008/2009.
3. Coren, Richard L. (2006). God and Science Among the Infinities (previously titled: The World is Too Complex for God, 2001) (thermodynamics, pgs. 49, 62-68). BookSurge.
Further reading
● Coren, Richard L. (1995). “Logistic Escalation as the Mechanism of Emergence”, Cybernetica, 38(3): 210-14.
● Coren, Richard L. (1989). Basic Engineering Electromagnetics: an Applied Approach. Prentice Hall.
● Coren, Richard L. (2001). “Empirical Evidence for a Law of Information Growth”, Entropy 3(4), 259-72.
● Coren, Richard L. (2002). “Comments on ‘A Law of Information Growth’”, Entropy, 4(1): 32-34.
● Coren, Richard. (c.2007). “The Law of Entropy and Information in Evolution”, Evolutionary Epic conference.
External links
● Coren, Richard L. (1932-) – WorldCat Identities.
● Richard Coren (about) - Evolutionary Epic conference.
