Ignorance, Creation, Destruction

Sander Leeuw () and Masatoshi Murase ()
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Sander Leeuw: Arizona State University
Masatoshi Murase: Kyoto University

Chapter Chapter 21 in Creative Complex Systems, 2021, pp 351-372 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a relatively simple but effective model of the co-evolution of human societies and their environments in terms of the growth of their information-processing capacity. The discussion then turns to society dynamics in terms of the process of categorizationCategorization, emphasizing the role of “noise”—the information discarded in any information processingInformation processing system—in the development of the path-dependent trajectories that characterize all societies. It then contrasts some of the dominant characteristics of the Western approach to science with those that developed in the Far East, and concludes with a plea to integrate the two approaches to improve our understanding of the complex phenomena facing our societies.

Keywords: Information processing; Categorization; Endo–exo dynamic model; Path dependency of science; Western and Eastern scientific approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4457-3_21

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