What is Progress – Part 2

What Is Progress?: Or How to Tell a Hawk From a Handsaw – Part 2

(Continued from the previous post.)

In order to talk about progress, development, growth, and sustainability, it is helpful to define the terms of the discussion. But before we can talk about definitions, we need to introduce, just briefly, the idea of complexity. Complexity theory is a relatively new branch of science that looks at nonlinear adaptive systems, or complex systems. Interaction is the key to complex systems. The grea...