Dr. Neil Theise, LIver Pathologist and Stem Cell specialist, explains complexity theory, and how sentience could be a function not only of human brains, but of all…
Conquering complexity: Failure to simplify falls on senior leadership. This is an opportunity for the CHRO to partner with every line-of-business executive.
State of the Net 2013 - Trieste (Italy), May 31st and June 1st Keynote speech How not to manage complexity Dave Snowden, chief scientific officer at Cognitiv...
At the core of standard economic theory is the assumption of self- interest, of rational decision making. But this is not reality. People are more complex. From this false premise standard economics has unwittingly poured a foundation from which a cultural cult of “greed is good” has risen, which harms both the individual and society. It hampers bridge building to others, to society, and the common good. Bridge Building is only possible beyond utilitarian calculation.
Systems thinking can seem complex and inaccessible but even the smallest group of people working towards change can learn from it. Kate Swade sets out five ways in which it can help. | Big society, Community, Community development, Innovation, local communities
Interview at the Research Days 2009 with Prof. Dr. Francis Heylighen from the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group of the Free University of Brussels.
Is complex life rare in the cosmos? The idea that it could be rests on the observation that the existence of life like us – with large, energy hungry, complicated cells – may be contingent on a number of very specific and unlikely factors in the history of the Earth. Added together they suggest that places like this could be exceedingly unusual across the universe. As I’ve pointed out in a previous post, there are some potential flaws to such arguments, largely because of the ways in which we make post-hoc inferences.
"In other words, if mitochondria and complex cells are the later outcome of a parasitic infestation, their existence is perhaps not so unlikely – there was a strong incentive for those ancestral mitochondrial species to find hosts, and the rest is just natural selection."
"What is complexity governance and how can this be implemented in a world complexity observatories grid? Complexity governance is the governance of any human relation (complexity pattern) on a peer-to-peer (complexity expression) level. This
I’m in the middle of a few books that discuss one of the most exciting developments of the past few decades: the science of complex systems. What is a complex system? The definition is debatable, but most researchers agree that a complex system is composed of many interacting parts that adapt in and evolve with the environment. It’s a promising area of study that’s revolutionizing how we understand big issues—global economics, public policy, the environment.
The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. He is to us what William Shakespeare was to Elizabethan England or Fyodor Dostoyevsky to czarist Russia.
In the 1600s during the Enlightenment there was a major breakthrough in thinking; rational, logical thought and its accompanying scientific methodology came into being. This allowed for a new way of conceptualizing and managing the world. Even now, 400 years later, we continue to reap the bountiful benefits of that great breakthrough in a new way of thinking. Today we are also on the brink of what might be considered an even greater Second Enlightenment. It is coming into being aided in great part because of a new integral dialectical meta-systemic thinking process that is far more capable of managing today's personal, economic and political interacting and evolutionary complex adaptive systems.
Using statistical physics, network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his colleagues have developed the first-ever tool to identify whether systems—be they technological, ecological, or biologica…
What we can do, while in the very middle of this structural crisis, is to try to analyze the emerging strategies that each camp is developing, the better to orient our own political choices in the light of our own moral preferences. We can start with the strategy of the camp of the "spirit of Davos." They are deeply divided. There are those who wish to institute a highly repressive system which openly propagates a worldview that glorifies the role of skilled, secretive, highly privileged rulers and submissive subjects. They not only propagate this worldview but propose to organize the network of armed enforcers to crush opposition.
I have some problems with the unitary model of complex societies that Shirky relies on in this analysis, but let’s poke at it a bit: “ Clay Shirky, The Collapse Of Complex Business Models […] In 1988,...
Because we live in an increasingly complex multidimensional interconnected world, the economic, social, and environmental mess we are in is an intricacy of interconnected wicked problems. The characteristics of wicked problems as systems thinkers have described them are that they cannot be formulated in a definitive way because there are many different perspectives and possible narratives for a same problem. There are multiple points of intervention as problems are inter-related and can be symptoms of other problems. There are no absolute right or wrong solutions: solutions may be contrary and involve trade-offs. There is no history or proven practice and expert knowledge to refer to, data is uncertain and often missing, and the best information necessary to understand the problems is distributed in the contexts affected by it. This requires navigating diversity and complexity.
The official definition of Biourbanism starts with the focus on “the urban organism, considering it as a hypercomplex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions.”
Complex systems have been studied by researchers from every discipline: biology, chemistry, physics, sociology, mathematics and economics and more. Depending upon the discipline, complex systems theory has accrued many flavors. We are after a formal representation, a model that can predict the outcome of acomplex adaptive system (CAS). In this article, we look at the nature of complexity, then provide a perspective based on discrete event systems (DEVS) theory. We pin down many of the shared features between CAS and artificial systems. We begin with an overview of network science showing how adaptive behavior in these scale-free networks can lead to emergence through stigmergy in CAS. We also address how both self-organization and emergence interplay in a CAS. We then build a case for the view that stigmergic systemsare a special case of CAS. We then discuss DEVS levels of systems specifications and present the dynamic structure extensions of DEVS formalism that lends itself to a study of CAS and in turn, stigmergy. Finally, we address the shortcomings and the limitation of current DEVS extensions and propose the required augmentation to model stigmergy and CAS.
All development and security policies presume a theory of change. In Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States(MIT Press, 2013), Iconsider the partnership of modernization theory, the dominant theory of social change since World War II, and liberal internationalism, the foreign policy agenda the West has promoted in political and economic development since the Cold War, and contrast the analytical framework of modernization theory with that of the evolutionary theory of complexity to explain unforeseen development failures, governance trends, and alliance shifts.
Don Tapscott is one of the world's leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the "digital divide" in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like "the business web" and was described by BusinessWeek as "pure enlightenment." Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.
Today, we live in a world that is based on exchange. Collaboration depends on continous trading of services and goods, which is stimulating the competitive genes in everyone, but a destuctive one, leaving behind the weak members of a society. How can we transform destructive competition into productive collaboration and include everyone? The sticking point is to strictly create value only through the time people are investing and eliminate income through the exchange of ressources. Money will be issued out of nothing for performing services and will be destroyed after buying a good from the commonsphere. You will get ride of the position of the seller and negative rivalry and promote sustainable challenges. Its not anymore about how can I get the most out of a deal, but what can I contribute to the society, generating value and therefore income.
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