Giorgio Bertini
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Information Measures of Complexity, Emergence, Self-organization, Homeostasis, and Autopoiesis
In this chapter review measures of emergence, self-organization, complexity, homeostasis, and autopoiesis based on information theory. These measures are derived from proposed axioms and tested in two case studies: random Boolean networks and an Arctic lake ecosystem. Emergence is defined as the information produced … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Complexity, Emergence, Self-organization
Tagged autopoiesis, complexity, emergence, self-organization
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: An Introduction
Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Complexity theory, Social sciences
Tagged complexity, complexity theory, social sciences
Complexity, Methodology and Method
This paper defines a theoretical framework aiming to support the actions and reflections of researchers looking for a ‘method’ in order to critically conceive the complexity of a scientific process of research. First, it starts with a brief overview of … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Methodology, Methods
Tagged complexity, methodology, methods
The Intelligence of Complexity
To better appreciate the contribution of the ‘paradigm of complexity’ in Educational sciences, this paper proposes a framework discussing its cultural and historical roots. First, it focuses on Giambattista Vico’s (1668-1744) critique of René Descartes’ method (1637), contrasting Cartesian’s principles … Continue reading
When Time Makes a Difference: Addressing Ergodicity and Complexity in Education
The detection of complexity in behavioral outcomes often requires an estimation of their variability over a prolonged time spectrum to assess processes of stability and transformation. Conventional scholarship typically relies on snapshots to analyze those outcomes, assuming that group means … Continue reading
Transforming Teacher Education Thinking: Complexity and Relational Ways of Knowing
In order that teacher education programs can act as significant scaffolds in supporting new teachers to become informed, creative and innovative members of a highly complex and valuable profession, we need to re-imagine ways in which teacher education programs operate. … Continue reading
Updating Darwin: Information and entropy drive the evolution of life
The evolution of species, according to Darwin, is driven by struggle – by competition between variant autonomous individuals for survival of the fittest and reproductive advantage; the outcome of this struggle for survival is natural selection. The Neo-Darwinians reframed natural … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Entropy, Evolution
Tagged complexity, Entropy, evolution
On Macrostates in Complex Multi-Scale Systems
A characteristic feature of complex systems is their deep structure, meaning that the definition of their states and observables depends on the level, or the scale, at which the system is considered. This scale dependence is reflected in the distinction … Continue reading
Posted in Complex systems, Complexity, Structure
Tagged complex systems, complexity, structure
Emergence in Stigmergic and Complex Adaptive Systems
Complex systems have been studied by researchers from every discipline: biology, chemistry, physics, sociology, mathematics and economics and more. Depending upon the discipline, complex systems theory has accrued many flavors. We are after a formal representation, a model that can … Continue reading
Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics of Systems
The social, political, economic and ecological environment in which the organizations are immerse, has forced them to look for mechanisms that allow them to give agile and economic answers, in addition to show and generate flexibility and adaptation, that is … Continue reading
