The rationale for complexity thinking and emergentist systemism

Abstract

The rationale for thinking in terms of complex systems today is its fitness to help understand the global problems and alleviate, if not solve, them. The tenets of complexity thinking can be identified, drawing upon the path-breaking assumptions of Bertalanffy’s General System Theory that revolutionises the way of thinking, the world picture, and the worldview of scientific disciplines.

Keywords

• complexity thinking
• emergentist systemism
• global problems
• Bertalanffy’s General System Theory.