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Toward 'Complexics' as a transdiscipline

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The proposed transdisciplinary field of ‘complexics’ would bring together all
contemporary efforts in any specific disciplines or by any researchers
specifically devoted to constructing tools, procedures, models and concepts
intended for transversal application that are aimed at understanding and
explaining the most interwoven and dynamic phenomena of reality. Our aim
needs to be, as Morin says, not “to reduce complexity to simplicity, [but] to
translate complexity into theory”.
New tools for the conception, apprehension and treatment of the data of
experience will need to be devised to complement existing ones and to
enable us to make headway toward practices that better fit complexic
theories. New mathematical and computational contributions have already
continued to grow in number, thanks primarily to scholars in statistical
physics and computer science, who are now taking an interest in social and
economic phenomena.
Certainly, these methodological innovations put into question and again
make us take note of the excessive separation between the training received
by researchers in the ‘sciences’ and in the ‘arts’. Closer collaboration
between these two subsets would, in all likelihood, be much more
energising and creative than their current mutual distance. Human
complexics must be seen as multi-methodological, insofar as necessary
combining quantitative-computation methodologies and more qualitative
methodologies aimed at understanding the mental and emotional world of
people.
In the final analysis, however, models always have a narrative running
behind them that reflects the attempts of a human being to understand the
world, and models are always interpreted on that basis.

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Documents de treball (Centre Universitari de Sociolingüística i Comunicació); 5

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Documents de treball / Informes (Centre Universitari de Sociolingüística i Comunicació)

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Toward 'Complexics' as a transdiscipline