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Thesis outline - resilience and dynamic complexity (view source)
Revision as of 03:56, 28 February 2021
, 03:56, 28 February 2021→Title: Creating collective resilience, empowerment, and social innovation in higher education through immersive, community-based learning experiences and an integrated understanding of all the sciences: autopoeisis
Therefore, we see strong evidence that an educational environment that emphasizes an integrated understanding of the sciences and values the interconnectedness of living beings can lead to a more resilient society, improve their wellbeing and consequently make use of the most meaningful capital that we have: creativity.
## Reunderstanding the living being
What does it mean to be alive? Like actually be a living being? My theory and hope are that the reunderstanding of what living beings are will inform us about being a good being yourself.
### What makes anything alife?
If we comapare swarm robots, artificial intelligence, and factories with plants, humans, or cells, common shared feature among the living is that they can take care of themselves.
The spiritual and simultaneously technical insight that living beings defend their identity. In the mathematical language, they defend their topology, their ... Once a brain cell is developed is stays a brain cell. Likewise, the heart, its own autopeitic system, will do everything to stay in heart-shape.
autopoeitic systems exist on the small scale, but obviously occur on the level of a whole Organism.
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An autopoietic system is to be contrasted with an allopoietic system, such as a car factory, which uses raw materials (components) to generate a car (an organized structure) which is something other than itself (the factory). However, if the system is extended from the factory to include components in the factory's "environment", such as supply chains, plant / equipment, workers, dealerships, customers, contracts, competitors, cars, spare parts, and so on, then as a total viable system it could be considered to be autopoietic.
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Such an understanding of the occurrence of self-reproducing orgasms on any level is crucial in developing an eye for the hidden power flows that keep our institutions alive. The life force is in our systems as much as it is in our cells. White supremacy and other systems that resulted from koloniasim are contemporary examples for power dynamics that make the fight for systemic justice so hard.
The phenomenon of life and its unde
## We live in a panarchy - everything is one big system: Our biophysical world and sociopolitical as well as all other disciplines are interconnected
## Complex systems and their characteristics
