# Complexity Science- 1 Introduction

A brief overview to the area of complexity science.

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Transcription:

Complexity science is a new approach or method to science that has arisen over the past few decades to present an alternative paradigm to our standard method of scientific enquiry. To give it context lets start by talking a bit about our traditional approach to scientific research.

We can loosely define science as a type of enquiry into the world around us, as opposed to other areas such as art or religion that are based upon aesthetics or revelation, the scientific method of enquiry claims to be based upon empirical data, otherwise known as facts.

The beginning of the modern era, a proximally 500 hundred years ago, saw the development of a systematic and coherent framework for conducting this scientific process. This framework became clearly formulated with the work of Sir Isaac Newton, and thus Newtonian physics became an example or paradigm of how modern science should be conducted.

The Newtonian paradigm is a whole way of seeing the world that describing phenomena as the product of linear cause and effect interactions between isolated objects that are determined by mathematical laws, this vision of the things results in a very mechanical world sometimes called the clock world universe.

This new paradigm in turn gave rise to a new method of enquiry called reductionism. Reductionism is the process of breaking…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: Complexity Academy
- Genres: Science
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- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Complexity Academy
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