Abstract
The focus is on formulating a complexity theory of minds evolving in the generative process of development through human interaction among peers. This interaction between two persons and their minds are taken as the unit of study. This unit will be regarded as a complex system, with their different parameters. A system, consisting of generative reciprocal influences within complex relationships of mutual, simultaneous reciprocal causal relations. The complexity of it still lacks an adequate vocabulary. What is needed, is a link between thinking in complexity, an adequate theory of personal development through human interaction, and the conceptual thinking of evolution theory as a methodological tool. The processes involved are both auto- and cross-catalytic of nature, leading to self-enhanced causal loop effects. The unexpected effects of human interaction may be described and explained as non-linear effects of ‘bootstrapping’ each other as a result of the causal dynamics of human interaction within peer relations.
Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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Pages (from-to) | 363-386 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Cognitive Systems |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |