I think this discussion is productive, because it seems it is bringing some light and agreement on "what is complexity and what it is not"... I didn't form the question well - what I meant was: what can we do now that we couldn't do 15 years before as a direct consequence of advances in complexity science? In line with what other people have said, complexity has been invading all sciences. e.g. you cannot do systems biology without taking a complexity stance, but all these advances will be seen as biology or medicine... Same for other disciplines... so maybe the question could be what can we do now that we couldn't do 15 years ago as a consequence of complexity thinking? Then the list I gave earlier would be a valid answer... even if the advances come from physics, biology, engineering, they required ideas from complex systems... Best regards, Carlos Gershenson... Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium “Tendencies tend to change...” |
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