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This document discusses complexity theory and its relationship to concepts like self-organization, emergence, uncertainty, and risk. It explains that complex systems are composed of interconnected elements that produce emergent behaviors and properties. Acknowledging properties like self-organization and emergence is important for understanding complex systems. All of these elements interact on many levels and result in varying degrees of subjectivity, uncertainty, and risk. The theory of complex systems relates to ideas like scale, systems perspectives, interdisciplinary thinking, and critical thinking. Analyzing complex systems can help develop a more comprehensive understanding of the world and identify opportunities for transdisciplinary approaches to address high uncertainty issues.
This document discusses complexity theory and its relationship to concepts like self-organization, emergence, uncertainty, and risk. It explains that complex systems are composed of interconnected elements that produce emergent behaviors and properties. Acknowledging properties like self-organization and emergence is important for understanding complex systems. All of these elements interact on many levels and result in varying degrees of subjectivity, uncertainty, and risk. The theory of complex systems relates to ideas like scale, systems perspectives, interdisciplinary thinking, and critical thinking. Analyzing complex systems can help develop a more comprehensive understanding of the world and identify opportunities for transdisciplinary approaches to address high uncertainty issues.
This document discusses complexity theory and its relationship to concepts like self-organization, emergence, uncertainty, and risk. It explains that complex systems are composed of interconnected elements that produce emergent behaviors and properties. Acknowledging properties like self-organization and emergence is important for understanding complex systems. All of these elements interact on many levels and result in varying degrees of subjectivity, uncertainty, and risk. The theory of complex systems relates to ideas like scale, systems perspectives, interdisciplinary thinking, and critical thinking. Analyzing complex systems can help develop a more comprehensive understanding of the world and identify opportunities for transdisciplinary approaches to address high uncertainty issues.
Complexity is a foremost concept that was initially introduced in the Week 1 lecture,
where Beilin briefly explained it to be composed of multiple interconnected elements,
and more than the sum of its parts due to its emergent behavior. This week, we dwelled deeper into the complexity theory, as well as its association with post-normal science, uncertainty, self-organization, emergence and risk. To begin, Heylighen gives much weight to interpreting complexity by its Latin roots of complexus, to which it gives the meaning of entangled. With that, he proceeds to describe complexity as the relations weaving the parts together that turn the system into a complex, producing emergent properties. As mentioned in the lecture, in order to address the notion of complexity and its consequent interconnectivity within a system, we must also acknowledge the properties of self-organization and emergence, where both play a crucial role in providing a more holistic view of complex systems in our contemporary society. As Heylighen suggest, all these properties are most often subjective and highly dependent upon one another. With that, all of these constituent elements then interact together on manifold levels within an interconnected system that ultimately results in differing degrees of subjectivity, uncertainty and risk. In my opinion, the notion of complex systems has a strong correspondence to the scale (Week 9), systems perspective (Week 5), interdisciplinary thinking (Week 4), as well as critical thinking (Week 2), all which have been introduced to us comprehensively in previous lectures. To me, the perception of complex systems is an analytical tool and at some philosophical level an act of imagination of an artificially given boundary (Beilin, Chapter 13) to assist us in acquiring a more extensive and in-depth understanding of the world as a system. With a complex system outlook, it brings forth an opportunity for the synergy and consensus of transdisciplinary approaches to make sense of an high uncertainty and high risk reality, where each adaptive interaction creates change and each change subsequently creates an infinite more. As such, this intricate network of interconnected components demand a more critical and analytical approach as to obtain more viable solutions for future complications caused by outliers of respective systems. As Johnson mentions in his article Street Level, Those of us who walk the sidewalks of todays cities remain as ignorant of the long-term view, the thousandyear scale of the metropolis, as the ants are of the colonys life. This statement denotes the significance of scale to deciphering complexities for it is scale that allows us to segregates particular entities/organisms/ ideas into relevant classifications that subsequently become integral parts of a complex system. In my perspective, the theory of multiple cause-effect connections call for an integration of all that has been learnt in prior lectures to develop new ways of knowing and doing for the sake of a more sustainable future. In light of all this, I believe that this has made a notable impact on my outlook towards confronting the complicated issues at present. Wicked environmental problems will be a preeminent issue I will be given to resolve as an environmental engineer in the future, and thus this refreshed attitude has allowed me to see things in a more holistic point of view. Initially, Ive been entirely uninterested in the fields of politics and economics, for it was at that time I felt that it would not play a grave importance of any sort within my area of interests. Now, it is to my knowledge that all branches of knowledge play an imperative role in progressing towards sustainability (such as local policies and economical system substitutability , where I will now put
more of an effort to acquiring knowledge of diverse disciplines, including my own, as
to aid me in contributing to a more sustainable society.