4: The emergence of the individual and the social in communicative interaction
- Complex adaptive systems as a source domain for analogies of human acting and knowing
- The evolution of mind, self and society
- Back to the complexity sciences as source domain for analogies
- Conclusion
This chapter commences with a brief review of work done on complex adaptive systems by some scientists (Ray, 1992; Kauffman, 1993, 1995; Goodwin, 1994) at the Santa Fe Institute in the United States of America. I will explain below why I think that their work, and that of others (Prigogine, 1997; Allen, 1998a, 1998b) in the complexity sciences, serves as a source domain for analogies with human action despite claims made in this book that it is limiting to think about ...
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