Franco Orsucci
University College London
Cambridge NHS Foundation Trust
Festival della Complessità, Tarquinia 2011
Ontological definition: objective complexity
Epistemic definition: subjective complexity
Complexity Theory states that critically interacting components self-organize to form potentially evolving structures exhibiting a hierarchy of emergent system properties.
Static Complexity (Type 1)
Dynamic Complexity (Type 2)
Evolving Complexity (Type 3)
Self-Organizing Complexity (Type 4)
Pierre Bourdieu: capitale economico, culturale, sociale
Robert Putnam: capitale sociale come social network
Francis Fukuyama: promuovere cooperazione sociale
GS Granovetter: la forza dei legami deboli e casuali
Investire nel capitale sociale e’ incubare nuove relazioni
Reflective
cascading
Decoupling
Entrainment
signals
Synchronization
E-Mergence
Confucius
Socrate
Buddha
Cristo
Goethe
Freud
Smart economy, mobility, environment, governance, people, living
Capacita’ di intelligenza comunitaria collettiva
Partecipazione al governo locale
Qualita’ della vita
Sostenibilita’
Risorse della comunicazione (anche ICT)
Capitale psico-sociale
Capitale sociale e culturale di una comunita' ed un territorio
Strong vs. weak links
Dimensione citta’, effetti relazionali e di rete
Hubs and superconnectors
Dinamiche di rete fra SL gerarchici e WL semi-random
Ruolo della nuova rete nella crescita di WL
Kurt Lewin, Lewin, who was well known for his terms "life space" and "field theory”, proposed to view the social environment as a dynamic field that affected human consciousness
HS Sullivan Wertheimer, Kohler, & Koffka Karl Popper Benjamin Libet, CMF Sir John Eccles, psychons Bohm & Bohr WJ Freeman
Matter, mind, brain, body and society emerge from the same stream in the complexity of nature: we call this energy ‘Mind Force’.Connections of genes and molecules, neurons and hormones, thinking and language, people and organizations form a continuous flow of synchronized interactions.Interactions between networks across many scales, from molecular, to biological, to cognitive and social, sustain its scaling and cascading.
" So you are saying that human agreement decides what is true and what is false? - It is what human beings say that is true and false; and they agree in the language they use. That is not agreement in opinions but in forms of life."
Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations p. 241-§309, 1978)
Language is a manner of living together in a flow of coordination of consensual behaviours that arises in a history of living in the collaboration of doing things together
Humberto Maturana
Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing ...
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci