Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into its description... The arrow of time is the manifestation of the fact that the future is not given, that, as the French poet Paul Valery emphasized, ‘time is a construction’.
-Ilya Prigogine
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