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Ignorance, Creation, Destruction

In: Creative Complex Systems

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  • Sander Leeuw

    (Arizona State University
    Arizona State University)

  • Masatoshi Murase

    (Kyoto University)

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.

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  • Sander Leeuw & Masatoshi Murase, 2021. "Ignorance, Creation, Destruction," Creative Economy, in: Kazuo Nishimura & Masatoshi Murase & Kazuyoshi Yoshimura (ed.), Creative Complex Systems, chapter 0, pages 351-372, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:crechp:978-981-16-4457-3_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4457-3_21
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