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COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

Master Capacity Builder. COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS.

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COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

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  1. Master Capacity Builder COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

  2. For many years scientists saw the universe as a linear place. One where simple rules of cause and effect apply. Scientists believed the universe and everything in it could be predicted and controlled. Despite using the most powerful computers in the world the weather remained unpredictable, despite intensive study and analysis ecosystems and immune systems did not behave as expected. Gradually as scientists of all disciplines explored these phenomena a new theory emerged - complexity theory - a theory based on relationships, emergence, patterns and iterations. A theory that maintains that the universe is full of systems, weather systems, immune systems, social systems etc and that these systems are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Hence complex adaptive systems.

  3. Interdependency: Simple Things Generate Complex Outcomes Large Numbers of Units Come Together Self-organization Emergence Initial Conditions CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY

  4. “I’m interested in change that challenges the whole system, being potentially disruptive.” As an analogy, “reduce, reuse, and recycle does not challenge the system,” she explains. “Shifting the energy base challenges the system. It creates a sea change.” —Frances WestleyGetting to Maybe

  5. SYSTEM OF COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION • Developing a Creative Molecular Economy • Master Capacity Builders • Skills for Transformational Learning • Mobile Collaborative Governance

  6. CAPACITIES FOR TRANSFORMATION • Openness to New Ideas • Seeing Connections Among Disparate Ideas • Broadband • A Culture That Supports Continuous Innovation

  7. APPLYING COMPLEXITY THEORY TO COMMUNITIES • Parallel Processes • Adaptive Planning • Utilization of Interlocking Networks • Anticipating Emerging Ideas – Weak Signals • Looking for Access Points

  8. COMMUNITY TRANSFORMERS • Send Articles to Peers • Have Chamber Build Capacities for a Creative Molecular Economy in Members • Establish a Futures Institute • Have Library Start Futures Dialogue Group

  9. SHIFT IN PRINCIPLES • Independence to Interdependence • Radical Individualism to Connected Individuality • Hyper-competition to Deeper Collaboration • Linear to Non-linear

  10. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." —Albert Einstein

  11. ADDITIONAL PRINCIPLES • Edge of Chaos • Fractals • Small World Networks • Tipping Point Communities of the Future 2013 • Updated 2015

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