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Notes - Dynamic Complexity and Resilience Thesis/ISR-G (view source)
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What essential scientific understanding is needed for a technologist in a world that is fundamentally dynamically complex?
A _new_ science of holism is needed to convey an understanding of the world around us and all its layers; the natural, social, and critical epistemological realms. As this ontological shift is slowly taking place, we attempt to provide appropriate models, methods, language for phenomena, and threshold understandings that account for a dynamically complex world.
The following categories attempt to embrace and suggest the emerging shape of such a holistic epistemology. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion [^epis-oxford]. A new sciencethat sees the interconnectedness of nature will therefore change our belief of what nature is (compared to the reducinist sciences).
## 1. Models for a holistic world
Insights/concepts that inform a holistic epistemology: structure conditions behavior, emergence as a phenomenon, fractals or emergence on different scales, the role of fields (disciplines), self-organization
## 2. Methods of study that respect the nature of reality
The _scientific method_ does not seem to be sufficient to account for learning on the way, drastically slowing down the discovery process. Furthermore, the researcher should be immersed in the study space.
Emancipatory action research as an example for a research method that recognizes the nature of reality.
## 3. Language for natural phenomena
A _new_ approach to science requires a collective, shared understanding of natural phenomena. We need concepts to share and describe phenomena emerging in reality. Fields of study that offer such language are _systems thinking_, _concepts for dynamically complex systems_, _indigenous knowledge_ that perceives the world through a holistic lense.
## 4. Threshold understandings of our current disciplines
Some of these understandings arose from the reducinist sciences and should be understood inside the shift toward a holistic epistemology.
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[^stroke-of-insight]: Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight | TED Talk. (n.d.). . Retrieved February 18, 2021, from https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight?language=en
[^epis-oxford]: Oxford Languages and Google - English | Oxford Languages
