Category:Complexity
Here, we'll keep items about complexity theory, evolution, emergence, and the like, i.e. 'the laws of change' in the physical and social world.
Quotes
On the Difference Between Systems Analysis and Evolutionary Studies
"In contrast to the system approach that considers systems and structures as essentially static (or concentrates on their functioning), evolutionary approaches focus on those special conditions and factors that determine qualitative evolutionary transformations and reorganizations of such systems."
- Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev et al. [1]
Key Resources
Articles
The Evolution of Complexity:
- The Evolution of Complexity in the Cosmos and Matter Regimes, see: Evolution of the Physical Universe Before the Emergence of Life
- The Evolution of Complexity of Life and Biological Regimes
- The Evolution of Complexity in Human Society and Cultural Regimes
Books
- Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. By Adyahanzi, Brendan Graham Dempsey. Metamodern Spirituality Series, Vol. VI. [2]. See: Emergentism as a Religion of Complexity
- Bobby Azarian. The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity. Listen to the podcast with the author: Bobby Azarian on How the Universe Organizes Cosmic Complexity
Pages in category "Complexity"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 259 total.
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- Achieving Personal and Relational Coherence Through Enabling Constraints
- Adult Developmental Theory
- Ago-Agonistic Systems
- Alexander Bogdanov and Modern Systems Theory
- Allopoiesis
- Alternative Heterodox Lineage in Evolutionary Thought and Its Emphasis on the Role of Consciousness
- Alternatives of Social Evolution
- Anthropogaia
- Anti-Entropic Role of Information
- Arrow of Time
- At Home in the Universe
- Autodidactic Universe
- Autopoiesis
- Autopoiesis and Cognition
B
- Bifurcation
- Big History Perspective on Evolution
- Biofields
- Biosemiotics
- Biosenescense
- Bobby Azarian on How the Universe Organizes Cosmic Complexity
- Brendan Graham Dempsey
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on How the Epic of Evolution Continues in the Psycho-Cultural Domain
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Cultural Complexity Index
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Consciousness as Added Dimensionality
- Brendan Graham Dempsey vs Jim Rutt on Cosmic Teleology and Emergence Vectors
- British Emergentist Movement
C
- Chreods, Homeorhesis and Biofields
- Clement Vidal
- Clement Vidal on the Noosphere
- Common Cybernetics
- Comparison of Biological and Social Macro-Evolution
- Complex Anarchism
- Complexity
- Complexity Economics
- Complexity in Human Society and Cultural Regimes
- Complexity of Life and Biological Regimes
- Complexity Patterning
- Complexity Science
- Complexity Spirals
- Complexity Theory
- Complexity Thresholds and Complexity Transitions
- Complexity-Based Management
- Complicated Open-Loop Systems vs. Complex Closed-Loop Systems
- Computational Complexity of Democracy
- Computational Evidence for the Cognitive Costs of Sociality
- Contemporary Evolutionary Holism
- Cosmic Evolution as the Rise of Complexity in Nature
- Cosmic Evolutionary Philosophy
- Cosmic Teleology
- Cultural Complexity Index
- Cybernetic Balance
- Cybernetic Communism
- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
- Cybernetic Hypothesis
- Cybernetic Planning
- Cybernetic Production Regime
- Cybernetic Revolution
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries
- Cybernetic Self-Management
- Cybernetic Socialism
- Cybernetic State
- Cybernetics
- Cybernetics and Governance
- Cybernetics as an Antihumanism
- Cybernetics History
- Cybernetics Movement
- Cybernetics of Governance and the Cybersyn Project
- Cybernetics of the Commons
- Cybernetics Valuable to the Commons and for Understanding AI
D
E
- Economic and Social Cybernetics
- Economic Complexity Index
- Economic Cybernetics
- Ecosystem
- Eden Medina on Cybernetics and Revolution
- Edgar Morin's Methodology for Complex Thought
- Efficiency vs Diversity and Its Optimal Balance for Sustainable Systems
- Emergence
- Emergence as Unifying Theme for 21Cy Science
- Emergence of a Global Brain
- Emergence of the Transdisciplinary Individual
- Emergence, Self-organization and Diversity in the KDE Community
- Emergentism
- Emergentism as a Religion of Complexity
- Endosymbiotic Theory
- Energy Complexity Spiral
- Ententionality
- Evolution
- Evolution Almanac
- Evolution in the Matter Era
- Evolution of Meaning
- Evolution of the Physical Universe Before the Emergence of Life
- Evolutionary Catastrophes and the Science of Mass Extinctions
- Evolutionary Decontrol
- Evolutionary Laws
- Evolutionary Megaparadigms
- Evolutionary Order
- Evolutionary Principles of the Structure of the Universe
- Evolutionistics
- Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
F
- Feedback Loop
- Fields
- Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
- Fourth Major Evolutionary Transition
- Fourth Order Cybernetics
- Fractal Patterns
- Free Energy Rate Density
- Free Energy Rate Density of the Human Brain
- Fritjof Capra on the Systems View of Life
- From Dot-com Capitalism to Cybernetic Communism
- Functional Pluralism
G
H
- Herbert Spencer
- Hidden Connections
- Hierarchy Theory
- Historical Progression of Complexity, Networks and Hierarchy
- History of Cybernetics
- Holon
- Holonics
- Homo Hacker
- How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
- How the World Became Complex
- How Thermodynamic Science Undermined Reductionism
I
- Imagining a Self-Organised Classroom
- Impact of Human Consciousness on Evolution
- Information-Energy Metasystems Model
- Informational Complexity of the Innate Knowledge of Human Beings
- Integrated Information Theory
- Integration of Cosmic, Biological, and Social Evolution
- Integrative Complexity
- Integrative Levels of Reality
- Isotropic Nature of the Universe
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M
- Major Evolutionary Transition
- Major Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
- Materials-Energy-Information Model
- Matter Regimes
- Maturana and Varela's the Tree of Knowledge
- Measuring the Complexity of Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Mega-Evolution
- Meta-Crisis
- Metamemes
- Metaphysics of Emergence
- Metasystems
- Methodology for the Study of Open Complex Giant System
- Michael Mascolo on Hierarchical Complexity and Moral Relationalism
- Model of Hierarchical Complexity
- Multi-Evolutionism or Non-Linear Evolution Theory
- Multi-Scale Competency Architecture
- Multi-Solutions
- Multiplexity