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Contents
Foreword ................................................................................... 1
Contents ................................................................................... 3
Train Your Mind to See How the World REALLY Works... .... 4
Adding the Complexity Perspective to Your Mental Toolbox . 5
About This Guide ..................................................................... 6
The Idea of a Complexity Perspective ..................................... 9
The Idea of Emergence ........................................................... 13
The Idea of a (Bounded) System ............................................ 21
The Idea of Context ................................................................ 27
The Idea of Downward & Upward Causation ........................ 36
The Idea of Requisite Complexity.......................................... 47
The Idea of Diffusion ............................................................. 58
The Idea of Networks ............................................................. 67
The Idea of Nonlinearity ........................................................ 74
The Idea of Self-Organization ................................................ 81
The Idea of the “Edge of Chaos” ............................................ 86
An Emerging Idea: The “Fractal Organization” .................... 89
The Last Word ........................................................................ 93
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