Focus: Complexity
Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century. An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Klaus Mainzer a1
a1 Chair for Philosophy of Science, Carl von Linde Academy, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr. 21, D-80333 Munich, Germany. E-mail: mainzer@cvl-a.tum.de
Abstract
The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences from cosmic and quantum systems to cellular organisms and the brain. Even in modern engineering science self-organizing systems are developed to manage complex networks and processes. It is now recognized that many of our ecological, social, economic, and political problems are also of a global, complex, and nonlinear nature. Modern evolutionary economics can be modelled in the framework of complex systems and nonlinear dynamics. Historically, evolutionary economics was inspired by Schumpeterian concepts of business cycles and innovation dynamics. What are the laws of sociodynamics? What can we learn from nonlinear dynamics for complexity management in social, economic, financial and political systems? Is self-organization an acceptable strategy to handle the complexity in firms, institutions and organizations? The world-wide crisis of financial markets and economies is a challenge for complexity research. Misleading concepts of linear thinking and mild randomness (e.g. Gaussian distributions of Brownian motion) must be overcome by new approaches of nonlinear mathematics (e.g. non-Gaussian distribution), modelling the wild randomness of turbulence at the stock markets. Systemic crises need systemic answers. Nevertheless, human cognitive capabilities are often overwhelmed by the complexity of nonlinear systems they are forced to manage. Traditional mathematical decision theory assumed perfect rationality of economic agents (homo oeconomicus). Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize laureate of economics and one of the leading pioneers of systems science and cognitive science, introduced the principle of bounded rationality. Therefore, we need new insights into the factual microeconomic behaviour of economic agents by methods of humanities, cognitive and social sciences, which are sometimes called ‘experimental economics’. Social and economic dynamics are interdisciplinary challenges of modern complexity research.
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From European Review
on
The Brain, a Complex Self-organizing System
Wolf Singera1
concludes with the ...
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OUTLOOK:
...we will have to consider more and more that the brain is a member of a socio-cultural network and that some of the phenomena that seem to be so difficult to explain in pure neuronal terms will have their explanation only when considering interactions among brains, or networks of brains. This widened perspective is probably necessary to close the explanatory gaps between first and third person perspective. We shall have to consider the fact that our brains are the product of their embedding in a complex cultural environment and that many of the constructs that are so difficult to relate to brain processes, such as value systems, consciousness, intentionality and so forth, have only come into the world because brains mirror themselves reciprocally in other brains and assign properties to the then gained experiences. We are just at the beginning of social brain research but there are already first investigations on phenomena that exist only in the realm of social interactions, such as empathy, greediness and jealousy. Obviously, the complexity of these networks formed by interacting brains by far exceeds the complexity of individual brains."
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IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS
It amounts to know how we could quantify the Harmony Model within the scope of complexity Theory:
The Harmony Model as THE IDEA....
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The Idea ie. The Word of HARMONY (H)
The Godly Sphere
In your material plane
You belong to mankind
You belong to nature
You belong to the universe
That makes up
The mass of your Mind (m)
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In your spiritual plane
You have your faith
You have your religion
You have your conscience
That makes up
The spiritual light of your mind (c)
The cumulated integration of your material and spiritual planes makes up the
Energy of your mind (E)
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The Human Sphere
In your social plane
You live in a state
You live in a community
You live in a family
That makes up the humanity of your mind (h)
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In your cultural plane
You have your rule of law
You have your community ethics
You have your family love
That makes up the aesthetic quality of your mind (q)
The cumulated integration of your social and cultural planes makes up the
Intelligence of your Mind (I)
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The Energy (E) & Intelligence (I) of your mind in your godly & human spheres make up the resonance of your being, which is the Idea, ie.
The word of the Harmony
H == {E =mc2 ++ I=hq2}
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