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Most forces in nature cause destruction, competition and conflict. A few processes, such as life, strive in the opposite direction, evolving ever more sophisticated and complex organisms despite being surrounded by death and chaos. Societies evolve, creating new structures and destroying old ones. Cooperation and synergy drive these biophilic processes that are intricately woven together through flows of information and energy. But not any information is relevant in deriving synergistic cooperation. Too much noise in the information exchange and the system collapses destroying the agents sustaining it. Novel insights in irreversible thermodynamics of complex systems help us to better understand these processes. This allows us to consiliently integrate evolutionary dynamics in diverse fields of knowledge including physics, chemistry, biology, social sciences, ethics and the arts.