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21. Ignorance, Creation, Destruction

verfasst von : Sander van der Leeuw, Masatoshi Murase

Erschienen in: Creative Complex Systems

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

This chapter presents a relatively simple but effective model of the co-evolution of human societies and their environments in terms of the growth of their information-processing capacity. The discussion then turns to society dynamics in terms of the process of categorization, emphasizing the role of “noise”—the information discarded in any information processing system—in the development of the path-dependent trajectories that characterize all societies. It then contrasts some of the dominant characteristics of the Western approach to science with those that developed in the Far East, and concludes with a plea to integrate the two approaches to improve our understanding of the complex phenomena facing our societies.

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Fußnoten
1
For a more extensive summary, see van der Leeuw (2019).
 
2
This kind of Eastern thinking is very similar to Niels Bohr’s complementarity principle in modern physics (Bohr, 1985). It has led to revolutionary breakthroughs in the field of particle physics that show how moving beyond the limits of Western scientific perspective has helped enlighten major issues concerning nature (Atmanspacher & Dalenoort, 1994).
 
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Surprisingly similar methodologies were not only proposed by the great Western poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Bortoft, 1996), but also by the Western particle physicist Geoffrey Chew (Nicolescu, 2017) and by the Western art educator, Edwards (1986). The same has occurred in the medical sciences (Doidge, 2016) and the social sciences (Scharmer, 2016).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Ignorance, Creation, Destruction
verfasst von
Sander van der Leeuw
Masatoshi Murase
Copyright-Jahr
2021
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4457-3_21

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