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Avoiding extinction: participation in the nested complexity of life

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Een economie is meer dan BBP, klimaatverandering meer dan CO2, een pandemie is meer dan een R-getal. Om de huidige crises te snappen, moeten we dringend leren denken in relaties en verbanden in plaats van hokjes en makkelijk te isoleren variabelen. Er is een blik op complexiteit nodig, dat is iets radicaal anders dan reductionisme: een probleem in makkelijk te managen stukjes op te hakken. Dat kan op korte termijn goed lijken te werken maar creëert vaak meer problemen dan het oplost. We moeten van ‘koude data’ naar ‘warme data’.

Mooi stuk van Daniel Christian Wahl en Nora Bateson:

“To address our socio-economic and ecological crisis now requires a level of contextual comprehension, wiggly though it may be to grok the inconsistencies and paradoxes of interrelational process. Far from solving these dilemmas or resolving the conflicting patterns, warm data utilizes these characteristics as its most important resources of inquiry.”

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“Warm data describes the interactions, relationships and information flow in complex adaptive system from which health and wellbeing can emerge as positive systemic properties. The call for a science of qualities [Is] motivated by the need for such an approach to inform appropriate participation in the ongoing process of life as a planetary process. He understood that a precondition of this process to continue was to pay closer attention to how our human agency in these nested systems either contributes to regenerative or degenerative patterns.”

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