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K 5-2 Complex Adaptive Knowledge

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Complex Adaptive Knowledge 

(See also: K2 Knowledge)

 

Emergent knowledge (or complex adaptive knowledge) is context-dependent; it is ordered yet not predictable, and it describes animate (biological, animal, human, etc) events and ecologies, which are to some extent self-correcting and self-regulating.

 

It occurs when a large numbers of actors interact frequently, within substantial (although not absolute) degrees of freedom, without any one actor being able to see the whole picture. 

 

Interventions in emergent ecologies need to be light-touch (wherever feasible), but rapid and decisive when necessary.  It is far more important to monitor outlier changes than core changes - which are generally fairly regular. Important changes, and innovations, most often take place on the 'edge of chaos'. Compliance for the sake of compliance can lead to stasis. 

 

Most events are emergent, and are not primarily amenable to control and compliance. All forms of life are by definition emergent, adaptive, variable, and to some extent self-regulating. The base-line definition of 'life' is cell division, which has an in-built mutation rate of 1 in 10 to the 6th. Mutations, like variations on the stock-market, can be to your advantage or disadvantage. You have to monitor closely, and wait and see. 

 

See also ... 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272291235_Complexity_and_the_New_Ecologies_of_Knowledge_2013-08-12

 

 

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