History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life's paradoxes. But what if these
attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life? Contrary to the supposedly sublime linear …

This chapter provides a relatively non-technical introduction to complex systems, from a
scientific perspective, at a level useful to both scientists and narrative theorists. It covers …

The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the
sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts to provide a coherent means …

It may be intuitively appealing to draw parallels between the implications of complexity
science and postmodernism, but it is harder to substantiate them. I will argue in this article …

In this paper we choose to enact this short story of Anais Nin. We have chosen to break out
of the use of conventional narrative by using psychodynamic theory to break into the …

Introduction omplexity theory is being put to use in various and contradictory ways in the
natural and social sciences and humanities. Scientific proponents of complexity champion it …

What is complexity science? This question invokes sys-temic and dynamic thinking at many
levels, which means that arriving at a coherent answer will be a complex process in and of …

We are living in a time of unprecedented challenges: human activity is now the primary
driver shaping the planet and we are perilously close to breaching a variety of critical …

This paper explores the implications of the incompressibility of complex systems for the
analysis and modelling of such systems. In particular, a provisional epistemology (theory of …

The Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures focuses on the
broader aspects of philosophy and traditional intellectual patterns of religion and cultures …