What are the greatest challenges for Evolutionary theory in our times?

Autor:	Jan Huston
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	Theoretical computer science Punctuated equilibrium business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Nonlinear system System transformation Organizational change Information gap Sociology Artificial intelligence business Evolutionary theory media_common
Zdroj:	World Futures. 38:107-121
ISSN:	1556-1844 0260-4027
DOI:	10.1080/02604027.1993.9972372
Popis:	It is the lack of a common, transdisciplinary language and a metaphorical map encompassing the existing major systems that constrains progress on evolutionary theory. A modification of Eldredge and Gould's model of “punctuated equilibria” can create such a map. This map should highlight a universal sequence for organizational change processes within and among systems. If this map combines this universal change sequence with the process of entropy and a preference for certain organizational configurations, it can reveal a trajectory of soft‐determinism in evolution. Thus the primary information gap in evolutionary theory is discerning the precursors and mechanisms of nonlinear system transformation. However, the proposed map can be used to view all existing major systems as a single punctuated evolutionary system, with nested systems as scaled reflections. In this way a transdisciplinary language might illuminate a “Rosetta Stone” for discovering the mechanisms of system transformation. Since evol...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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