Post date: 10-lug-2012 11.21.44
Forse la complessità deve essere compresa psicologicamente, prima di poter essere "usata" come strumento cognitivo. Per partecipare cognitivamente alla complessità è necessario uno stato mentale di un certo tipo. L'ansia non aiuta.
Dal punto di vista culturale invece, Morin cerca di analizzare i motivi per i quali l'ambiente scientifico (S.O accademico) stenta ad accogliere la complessità
EDGAR MORIN
CNRS Emeritus Director
Centre d’Etudes Transdisciplinaires. Sociologie, Anthropologie, Histoire
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Why has the problematic of complexity appeared so late? And why would it be justified?
1. The three principles of the rejection of complexity by ‘classical science’
Classical science rejected complexity in virtue of three fundamental explanatory principles:
These principles led to extremely brilliant, important, and positive developments of scientific knowledge up to the point where the limits of intelligibility which they constituted became more important than their elucidations. In this scientific conception, the notion of “complexity” is absolutely rejected. On the one hand, it usually means confusion and uncertainty;...