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Science is incomplete. It always has been and might always be. It has been right some of the time but wrong way too much of the time. Most of the theories of the the greatest scientists of all time have been met initially with skepticism, accusations of incompetence and baffoonery, and some put in jail for herecy. There is the quintessential quest for the 'Theory of Everything' among physicists to equivicate the known science of the macro world (the...
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Get the Summary of M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Brian Arthur, a Stanford University professor, felt disillusioned with traditional economics, which he found static and disconnected from the dynamic complexities of real-world markets. His concept of "increasing returns" suggested that success breeds further success in certain markets, challenging the equilibrium-focused theories...
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Enhance your logic, reason, judgment, and wisdom. Increase your ability to create concise and reasoned arguments using data and evidence, to get a genuine conclusion.
The Systems Thinker, Analytical Skills aims to raise the level of your mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of how to use your mind effectively. This book will show you how to:
• Increase your ability to analyze problems and to comprehend what you read, hear, experience...
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Lose Your Broker Not Your Money untangles the mystery of successful investing by providing a market-based solution that is easy to understand, simple to use, and produces superior performance to any method currently found on the market. In amazingly simple and straightforward text, Dan Calandro leads the reader on a journey through the investment process that begins by distinguishing the market (what it actually is) from common misconceptions (namely,...
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Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth's climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research and ideas from the rapidly evolving fields...
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Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational...
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Praised by Entertainment Weekly as the man who put the fizz into physics," Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments that take him from the polite confines of an...
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Esta nueva ciencia señala principios generales que operan a partir de las interacciones entre los elementos de un sistema. Earls provee una descripción formal de estos principios. Desde ese punto de vista aborda la complejidad de sistemas sociales, informativos, históricos, ecológicos y eco-sociales, así como fenómenos termodinámicos, entrópicos y fractales. Por último, busca dar respuestas a problemáticas globales, bursátiles, económicas...
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Think with clarity, depth, and speed. Become an effective problem solver and decision maker.
We often have blind spots for the actual reasons that cause problems in our lives. So we try to fix our issues based on assumptions, false analysis, and mistaken deductions. This can bring a lot of misunderstanding, anxiety, and frustration into our personal and work relationships.
Tools of Systems Thinkers shares powerful strategies to organize your thoughts...
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Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right?
Learn to Think in Systems can help you with these problems.
Systems surround us and we might not even be aware of it. Your household is a system. The bakery on the corner is a system. Your class at school, your department at work, and your weekend soccer team made of wholehearted dads is a system too. You are a...
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You may know that the Quantum Theory revolutionized our perception of matter on the atomic scale, but did you know that its founder, Max Planck, himself didn't believe it?
This short read is Planck's address to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences after winning the Nobel prize. He displays how his Quantum Theory came into existence. It was not the result of a single lab experiment and a conclusion, but an inspection of overwhelming evidence from...
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The topic of the reduction of mental processes to biophysical mechanisms touches at the core of the mind–body problem, a puzzle in the philosophy of mind since the days of Descartes. This book is about philosophical aspects of neuroscience, centred on perspective dualism. The topic unfolds in the discussion of mechanisms in world and mind. Neuronal mechanisms of differing complexity are described in a general way. It is shown how models of such...
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Does science prove that the Bible is true?
Contrary to popular belief, everything in the Word of God actually appears scientifically verifiable. On the mountain, God told Moses to make sure that the tabernacle was, constructed according to the pattern He gave him (Hebrews 8:5). In the same way, everything in this universe can be, understood as adhering to a heavenly pattern.
Logics of the Kingdom serves as a theoretical answer to the age-old questions...
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In Capacity, systems thinker Carolyn Drugge offers a new and hopeful approach to addressing climate change. Many have argued that new technologies and greater efficiencies will not adequately solve the problem of climate change but few offer actual ways forward. Capacity provides a framework for addressing the issue, not merely the symptoms.
In the space that exists between our desire for a better world and our ability to create it lies a set of...
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La libertad había sido una de las palabras clave de las enseñanzas de Ignacio de Loyola, fundador de la Compañía de Jesús. Por eso, fueron los jesuitas quienes trajeron la modernidad -que llevaba implícita ese nuevo concepto de libertad al Nuevo Mundo-. Fueron ellos quienes fomentaron y difundieron los estudios que abrieron los ojos a los latinoamericanos.
Ignacio de Loyola pertenece a la estirpe de los hombres que han salido al mundo a luchar...
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L'automatique est la science des systèmes. Ce dernier terme doit être entendu ici non pas comme une totalité close sur elle-même, mais au contraire comme un ensemble d'éléments (dits « sous-systèmes ») en interaction, ensemble qui est lui-même en interaction avec un environnement constitué d'aut...
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This book offers a rigorous and self-contained presentation of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus within the general framework of continuous semimartingales. The main tools of stochastic calculus, including It's formula, the optional stopping theorem and Girsanov's theorem, are treated in detail alongside many illustrative examples. The book also contains an introduction to Markov processes, with applications to solutions of stochastic...
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From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we miss some of its most surprising and far-reaching implications. In Interdependence, biologist Kriti Sharma offers a compelling alternative...
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Une histoire des idées
Pour élaborer une histoire des idées, nous avons à comparer des concepts énoncés par des auteurs différents, à des moments différents et dans des contextes discursifs différents. Une élaboration scientifique d'une telle histoire nous contraint à formaliser ces comparaisons, d'abord en isolant les entités à comparer, ensuite, en objectivant les caractères selon lesquels se fera cette comparaison. Si une telle...
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