How can we think the complex?

@misc{citeulike:553, abstract = {This chapter does not deal with specific tools and techniques for managing complex systems, but proposes some basic concepts that help us to think and speak about complexity. We review classical thinking and its intrinsic drawbacks when dealing with complexity. We then show how complexity forces us to build models with indeterminacy and unpredictability. However, we can still deal with the problems created in this way by being adaptive, and profiting from a complex system's capability for selforganization, and the distributed intelligence this may produce.}, author = {Gershenson, Carlos and Heylighen, Francis }, citeulike-article-id = {553}, eprint = {nlin.AO/0402023}, keywords = {complexity, complexity-theory, philosophy, self-organization, theor}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2005-01-21 09:29:41}, priority = {2}, title = {How can we think the complex?}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0402023}, year = {2004} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:553 L3 - citeulike-article-id:553 TI - How can we think the complex? N2 - This chapter does not deal with specific tools and techniques for managing complex systems, but proposes some basic concepts that help us to think and speak about complexity. We review classical thinking and its intrinsic drawbacks when dealing with complexity. We then show how complexity forces us to build models with indeterminacy and unpredictability. However, we can still deal with the problems created in this way by being adaptive, and profiting from a complex system's capability for selforganization, and the distributed intelligence this may produce. KW - complexity KW - complexity-theory KW - philosophy KW - self-organization KW - theor AU - Gershenson, Carlos AU - Heylighen, Francis PY - 2004/06/01/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0402023 ER -