Empirical Paradox Complexity Thinking and Generating New Kinds of Knowledge 1st Edition by Paolo Grigolini Bruce West, Korosh Mahmoodi ISBN 978-1527534407 1527534405
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ISBN 10: 1527534405
ISBN 13: 978-1527534407
Author: Paolo Grigolini Bruce J. West, Korosh Mahmoodi
Is another world war inevitable? The answer is a resounding “yes” if we continue to think in terms of “either/or” outcomes. Adversaries think in such terms, you either get what you want, or you do not. Can a different way of thinking produce a different outcome? This book shows that the consistency demanded by the linear, logical either/or thinking is disrupted by paradox, whose resolution forces a consequent decision: war or peace, with no middle ground. If this were the only way of thinking then a person would be either a protagonist or an antagonist, but a person can be both, either, or neither; this opens the door to novel solutions. This is “both/and” thinking, which the book shows can be achieved by a dynamic resolution of paradox. Thus, a basically selfish individual can also be a hero; a consequence of the complexity of being human.
Table of contents:
1 Paradox is Fundamental
1.1 Getting Oriented
1.1.1 Physical Paradox
1.1.2 Complexity
1.1.3 Aristotelian Logic
1.2 Visual Paradox
1.3 Previews of Coming Attractions
2 Kinds of Empirical Paradox (EP)
2.1 Contradiction in theory
2.2 Altruism Paradox (AP)
2.2.1 Multilevel natural selection
2.2.2 The invisible hand
2.3 Organization Paradox
2.4 Strategic Paradox.
2.5 Survival Paradox
2.6 Innovation Paradox
2.7 Conflict Paradox
2.8 Control Paradox
2.9 Prepare for War Paradox
2.10 What have we learned?
3 Thoughts on Nonsimplicity
3.1 Some background.
3.2 Uncertainty and Empirical Law
3.3 Man, Machine & Management
3.4 Nonlinearity and Contradiction
3.5 Statistics and Taylor’s Law
3.6 Paradox and Uncertainty
4 Two Useful Models
4.1 Modeling Sociology
4.2 Decision-making Model (DMM)
4.2.1 Criticality
4.2.2 Control of Transitions
4.2.3 Committed Minorities
4.2.4 Groupthink and the gadfly
4.3 Evolutionary Game Model (EGM)
4.3.1 Choice of strategies.
4.3.2 Some general observations
4.4 Exploring simple level coupling
4.4.1 Joining the two models
4.5 Conclusions and observations
5 Self-Organized Temporal Criticality
5.1 The Inadequacy of Linear Logic
5.2 Two Brains, Two Networks
5.2.1 Intuition.
5.2.2 Deliberation.
5.2.3 Criticality and some extensions
5.3 SOTC model of two-level brain
5.3.1 Crucial events, swarm intelligence and resilience
5.3.2 Influence flows bottom-up
5.3.3 Influence flow top-down
5.3.4 Resilience vs vulnerability
5.4 The Sure Thing Paradox.
5.5 Conclusions from SOTC model
6 Criticality and Crucial Events
6.1 A little more history.
6.2 Properties of crucial events
6.3 Importance of crucial events
6.3.1 Making crucial events visible..
6.4 Dynamic nonsimplicity matching.
6.5 Summary and closing observations
A Master Equations
A.1 The Decision Making Model..
A.1.1 All to All coupling
A.2 SUM and SEM.
A.2.1 Criticality-induced network reciprocity.
A.2.2 Morality stimulus on SEM at criticality.
B Importance of Deception
C Analytic Arguments and STP
C.1 Limits of T
C.2 The special case W=1
C.2.1 Violation of the renewal condition
Bibliography
Index
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