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Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:21 PM<br>Subject: Synthesis - Social v Natural Complex Systems<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br>
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<strong style="color:rgb(0,0,205);font-family:georgia,times,'times new roman',serif;font-size:24px">Social vs Natural</strong><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,205);font-size:24px;font-family:georgia,times,'times new roman',serif">�Complex Systems</strong></div>
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<span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><em><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">"</span></em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">We might think of imagination as an emergent property of individual human beings.� It is probably fair to say that�</span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',verdana;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">what we imagine</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">�will be socially constructed but our ability to imagine results from our DNA and therefore evolution.� One of the important phenomena that arises�</span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',verdana;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">collectively�</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">i.e. within social systems, as a result of imagination is�</span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',verdana;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">reflexivity</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">. �This concept is less commonly understood and discussed than it ought to be...</span><em><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">"</span></em></span><br>
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<font face="times new roman, times, baskerville, georgia, serif">In this article I discuss an important issue for those of us who seek to use the complexity sciences to make sense of social systems and to inform public policy, which is the distinction between natural and social complex systems. �It's important not to put people on a pedestal for the sake of self-flattery but we should also appreciate some fundamental differences between these two systems else we might end up mapping framings from the natural sciences�inappropriately and underemphasising issues like reflexivity.</font></div>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span>Best wishes,<br>
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