Complexity. A Very Short Introduction

What is complexity? When and why does it arise? How are complex systems different from complicated ones? A simple introduction to the basics, plus a short conference wrap-up. (Talk at Mind the Progress, June 2019)

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1. Complexity A Very Short Introduction Wolfgang Wopperer-Beholz 14. Juni | Mind the Progress 2019
2. So, Complexity.
3. !
4. Complexity?
5. "
6. Let’s try something.
7. 1. Wander around randomly. 
 Greet the people 
 you come across.
8. 2.Gather in the room’s corners according to your industries. Estimate group sizes.
9. 3.Find (only!) people 
 with different job titles. Share your experiences with complexity.
10. What 
 did you find?
11. Order 
 and Disorder
12. https://www.insidescience.org/news/sean-carrolls-big-picture-tours-physics-and-philosophy
13. Interacting Parts
14. https://medium.com/disruptive-design/tools-for-systems-thinkers-the-6-fundamental-concepts-of-systems-thinking-379cdac3dc6a
15. Simple Rules
16. Flocking rules 1. Stay close, 2.but not too close. 3. Align your heading.
17. Emergence
18. https://slate.com/culture/2014/02/richard-barnes-murmur-examines-the-intricate-patterns-created-by-the-european-starlings-in-rome-photos.html
19. https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-galleries/2018/professional/shortlisted/natural-world/very
20. Order and Disorder Interacting Parts Simple Rules Emergence
21. Complexity!
22. #
23. http://space!ight101.com/spx/its-booster/
24. https://www.inverse.com/article/51291-spacex-here-s-the-timeline-for-getting-to-mars-and-starting-a-colony
25. https://www.!ickr.com/photos/neutronboy/33826713898/
26. https://sciencing.com/marine-ecosystem-classi"cation-38170.html
27. Fig. 27.9 The Earth gives back the same amount of energy that it receives from the Sun, but what it receives from the Sun is in a much lower entropy form, owing §27.7 CHAPTER 27 Roger Penrose: The Road to Reality, p. 706
28. https://vimeo.com/101669740
29. $
30. Happy explorations! @wowo101 https://wolfgangwopperer.com https://rebellion.earth cbyna
31. Wrap-up A brief synopsis Wolfgang Wopperer-Beholz 15th June | Mind the Progress 2019
32. !
33. "
34. #
35. What 
 did we find?
36. Paradigms
37. instrument of domination psychic prison schismatic Sociology of radical change Radical humanist paradigm Radical structuralist paradigm catastrophe Anti-organization theory Radical organization theory Subjective Objective Behaviorism, Hermeneutics ~ Pluralism determinism and Hermeneutics Puaim abstracted empircism Ethnomethodology and asr irics phenomenological symbolic S s t interactionism _ tmachine Action frame of reference Interpretive paradigm Functionalist paradigm ,8~~~~ ~~~~~ I / X1 X X x organism / / / ~~~~Sociology\\ \\ \ \ of regulation accomplishment, /_/_/_\_\_\_\_\_\ enacted sense making population-ecology language game cybernetic system text culture\ \ thatre\ \ loosely coupled system political system Gareth Morgan, “Paradigms, Metaphors, and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory”, p. 605
38. Perspectives
39. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Femme_au_Cheval
40. Position
41. https://www.norberteder.com/standpunkt/
42. Humility & Critique
43. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/gall_whole_earth.html
44. Weiterdenken.
45. Thank you! @wowo101 https://wolfgangwopperer.com https://rebellion.earth cbyna