Perplexing Complexity Human Modelling and Primacy of the Group as Essence of Complexity

Hardy Hanappi

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Abstract: This paper describes the emergence of complexity as duplicated evolutionary process. The first procedural source of complexity is the quantum jump of the evolution of the human species when it started to maintain certain brain-internal models of its environment. The second - parallel - procedural origin is the evolution of a communication structure, a language, with which an already existing group of primates could frame their internal models. In contrast to definitions of complexity which use the concept in the context of theoretical physics, this approach reveals some perplexing properties of model-building for a special subject of investigation; namely the human species: All adequate models of political economy (economics is just the sub-discipline that freezes political dynamics) have to be complex. Since today’s mainstream economic theory lends its formal apparatus from the mathematics of Newtonian physics, it misses the most essential features characterizing human social dynamics, i.e. its complexity.

Keywords: Evolutionary Complexity; Quantum Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 B5 B50 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01-13
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