complexity

The Stories We Tell

March 14, 2013

Picture by mikecpeck

Thumbnail image for The Stories We Tell

There are also times were a collective point of view ceases to be at service to our society and becomes the opposite, something that locks us in a restricted view.

Read the full article →

Bummer, We Can’t Change Society After All

February 19, 2013

20130215-231929.jpg

Thumbnail image for Bummer, We Can’t Change Society After All

We can only reflect and act on communications that are already part of our system. It’s important to reflect on how dis-empowering that is. There is absolutely nothing I can do to change a system I’m already part of. Period. As I’ve been exploring what this could mean in terms of creating and hosting spaces [...]

Read the full article →

Social Systems and System Complexity

December 28, 2012

Patterns

Thumbnail image for Social Systems and System Complexity

Social systems hold a paradox — it contains a structure in form of meaning patterns so complexity can be reduced and allow a more reasonable predicability in social interaction. On the other hand, the selection of structures makes the description and re-creation of meaning a more complex task.

Read the full article →

Language and System Complexity

November 1, 2012

by michael.heiss

Thumbnail image for Language and System Complexity

Reading about language, dialogue and complex systems used to be paralell readings with some things in common. Today, language and complexity seem to clearly show their interdependency as we have been exploring social systems as meaning systems based on communications. System Complexity and Language This connection reminded me of Murray Gell-Mann’s definition of complexity and [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries