Thanks a bunch, Carol! 🙏🏼 Thanks for expressing interest in ANT. I too look forward to digging in more on that. It's one of my primary motivators for this newsletter!
We exist within, and interact with, a myriad of entangled networks of complex systems. They are filled with various actors and agents that typically interact in a nonlinear kind of way. It breeds all sorts of multi-level behavior - from microscopic to macroscopic. Out of these complex systems emerge phenomena that complexity scientists are just now beginning to get a handle on.
Traditional Western science led to the understanding of predictable simple systems, like the motion of the planets around the sun. However, we can't encapsulate the dynamics of complex systems in just a few simple equations like physics does. Mostly because these systems are constantly evolving and continually adapting to each other – just as we humans do as we interact with people and place.
But progress is being made in identifying patterns in these systems that may lead to more generalizable principles that at least help us at least share a common vocabulary. 🤞🏼
Ahh yes of course, your excellent writing demonstrates the complexity and the patterns from which we get emergence. Its about time systems thinking became the norm but the entrenched reductionist and linear behaviour is still so prevalent.
Great stuff. I'd never heard of ANT but I love the idea of multiple entanglements and look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on this.
Thanks a bunch, Carol! 🙏🏼 Thanks for expressing interest in ANT. I too look forward to digging in more on that. It's one of my primary motivators for this newsletter!
We exist within, and interact with, a myriad of entangled networks of complex systems. They are filled with various actors and agents that typically interact in a nonlinear kind of way. It breeds all sorts of multi-level behavior - from microscopic to macroscopic. Out of these complex systems emerge phenomena that complexity scientists are just now beginning to get a handle on.
Traditional Western science led to the understanding of predictable simple systems, like the motion of the planets around the sun. However, we can't encapsulate the dynamics of complex systems in just a few simple equations like physics does. Mostly because these systems are constantly evolving and continually adapting to each other – just as we humans do as we interact with people and place.
But progress is being made in identifying patterns in these systems that may lead to more generalizable principles that at least help us at least share a common vocabulary. 🤞🏼
Ahh yes of course, your excellent writing demonstrates the complexity and the patterns from which we get emergence. Its about time systems thinking became the norm but the entrenched reductionist and linear behaviour is still so prevalent.
Thanks for the compliment, Carol. You nailed it on that second sentence. 👏🏼