CRUDE LOOK AT THE WHOLE, A (eBook)

A Decade Later: Insights into Real-World Complexity that Still Resonate

Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Helena Hong Gao (Herausgeber)

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2024
616 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
9789819802142 (ISBN)

Infos

In March 2013, Para Limes organized the conference A Crude look at the Whole. It turned out to be an extraordinary meeting, even more so eleven years later. During the conference the speakers, all giants on their own turf, captured the excitement about what the new field of complexity science could mean for understanding our world and molded it in approaches to extract meaning from these budding insights. Now, eleven years later, the (video's of the) talks create a thrill, that may be similar to what Newton felt when he realized that standing on the shoulders of giants allowed him to see what he saw.

In this book we have tried to capture that whole, while at the same time keeping the individual parts in view. We have done so by transcribing and editing the individual presentations, adding a summary to all of them and indicating the relevance of each of the presentations to ongoing and further explorations.

Contents:

• Preface
• A Crude Look at the Whole (Murray Gell-Mann)
• A Theory of Meaning: Or How A Schema Reduces Complexity (Robert Axelrod)
• Curiosity, Innovation, and Complexity (Helga Nowotny)
• Land Use, Economy, and Complexity (Kristian Lindgren)
• Signals and Boundaries — Gated-Urn Models for a Crude Look at the Whole (John Holland)
• Innovation and Diversity (Douglas Erwin)
• A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture (Ying-Yi Hong)
• A Complex World from a Virus's Point of View (Peter M A Sloot)
• Collective Phenomena, Collective Motion, and Collective Action in Ecological Systems (Simon Levin)
• Resilience for Human Development in the Anthropocene (Johan Rockstrom)
• Isotope Chemistry, Climate Change and the Fate of the Chinese Dynasties: Implications for the Future of Asian Societies (Wang Xian Feng)
• A Crude Look at Governance and Complexity by a Former Civil Servant (Peter Ho)

Readership: Potential readers of the book are expected to be researchers interested in complexity research, graduate students looking for their research directions, university lecturers whose teaching involves introductions of the aspects of interdisciplinary features of scientific exploration, and people that are interested in understanding the complex nature of our globe and the need to address the challenged resulting from that.

(1945) started as a nuclear researcher. In 1981 he became Attaché for Science and Technology in Washington and Ottawa. Back in the Netherlands, he headed an organization responsible for developing long-term cooperative industry university research programs. Later, his focus shifted to executing government innovation policies. In 2003 he initiated the Institute Para Limes in Europe. In July 2011 he moved to the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore to become director of the Complexity Program. After spinning off the Complexity Institute in 2014, the Complexity Program was renamed Para Limes @ NTU. In September 2018 he returned to the Netherlands and started Para Limes @ Europe. His motto is: 'the value of knowledge is in its use'.

earned her PhD in linguistics from Lund University in Sweden and pursued post-doctoral research in cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada. During her tenure as Research Director at the Cognitive Development Lab / Child Study Centre at the University of Toronto, she focused on cognitive and language development, overseeing research, teaching, and student supervision. Subsequently, at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, she broadened her research to include bilingual development and the study of language as a complex adaptive system. As a pioneering resident research fellow at the Complexity Institute at NTU, she also established the Bilingual Development Lab with funding from the Ministry of Education of Singapore. Upon returning to Canada, she continues to engage in both collaborative and independent research and serves on the Advisory Board of Para Limes @ Europe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Exploring Complexity
• Reihe/Serie: EXPLORING COMPLEXITY
• Verlagsort: Singapore
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-13: 9789819802142 / 9789819802142