  This paper summarizes and re-evaluates Prigogine's evolution of thought, from
a more classical view of thermodynamics with negative implications for the
evolution and persistence of life, through to a far more general and open
formulation of thermodynamics, which does not require assumption of a Big Bang.
The paper also proposes an encoding scheme for the statistics of Lorentzian
systems into mixed Fermi-Bose density matrices, to complete the program given
in quant-ph/0309087, which forcibly points towards symmetry in time at the
microscopic level. The paper suggests future directions to reconcile
microscopic time symmetry and macroscopic asymmetry and evolution, and
concludes that the space-time continuum may be larger and more interesting than
we are able yet to pin down.
