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	Many fields accept emergence. Physics and biology the most, others partially.		Many fields accept emergence. Physics and biology the most, others partially.

			= Evolution of Complexity and Systems Thinking =

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			! Phase
			! Approx. Period
			! Core Idea
			! Key Concepts Introduced
			! Major Thinkers
			! Key Works / Institutions
			! Significance for Complexity Science
			\|-
			\| Early Holistic Natural Philosophy
			\| Antiquity – 1600
			\| Nature understood as an interconnected whole rather than isolated parts
			\| Holism, natural order, organismic worldview
			\| [[Aristotle]], [[Heraclitus]], [[Avicenna]]
			\| Aristotle – ''Metaphysics''
			\| Early philosophical roots of emergence and systemic thinking
			\|-
			\| Scientific Reductionism
			\| 1600 – 1900
			\| Understanding systems by breaking them into fundamental components
			\| Mechanistic science, analytic reductionism
			\| [[Isaac Newton]], [[René Descartes]], [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]]
			\| Newton – ''Principia Mathematica''
			\| Established modern scientific method but downplayed system-level emergence
			\|-
			\| Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics
			\| 1850 – 1930
			\| Macroscopic order arises from microscopic interactions
			\| Entropy, statistical systems, phase transitions
			\| [[Ludwig Boltzmann]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]], [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]
			\| Boltzmann statistical mechanics
			\| First rigorous emergence in physics
			\|-
			\| Cybernetics
			\| 1940 – 1965
			\| Systems governed by feedback, control, and information flows
			\| Feedback loops, control systems, information theory
			\| [[Norbert Wiener]], [[Ross Ashby]], [[Claude Shannon]]
			\| Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
			\| Introduced feedback as a universal principle across biological and mechanical systems
			\|-
			\| General Systems Theory
			\| 1945 – 1975
			\| Universal principles exist across biological, social, and technological systems
			\| Open systems, system hierarchy, organismic systems
			\| [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]], [[Kenneth Boulding]]
			\| ''General System Theory'' (1968)
			\| Formalized interdisciplinary systems thinking
			\|-
			\| Systems Dynamics
			\| 1955 – 1980
			\| Complex social and industrial systems modeled using feedback loops
			\| System simulation, dynamic modeling
			\| [[Jay Forrester]], [[Donella Meadows]]
			\| [[The Limits to Growth]]
			\| First computational models of global civilization-scale systems
			\|-
			\| Chaos Theory
			\| 1960 – 1990
			\| Deterministic systems can produce unpredictable outcomes
			\| Nonlinearity, strange attractors, sensitivity to initial conditions
			\| [[Edward Lorenz]], [[Mitchell Feigenbaum]]
			\| Lorenz attractor research
			\| Showed that nonlinear systems can behave unpredictably
			\|-
			\| Complexity Science
			\| 1985 – 2005
			\| Complex adaptive systems produce emergent behavior
			\| Self-organization, emergence, adaptation
			\| [[Murray Gell-Mann]], [[Stuart Kauffman]], [[John Holland]]
			\| [[Santa Fe Institute]]
			\| Established complexity science as a formal research field
			\|-
			\| Network Science
			\| 2000 – 2015
			\| Complex systems structured as networks with universal patterns
			\| Scale-free networks, hubs, network dynamics
			\| [[Albert-László Barabási]], [[Duncan Watts]]
			\| ''Linked'' (Barabási)
			\| Revealed structural laws governing many complex systems
			\|-
			\| Planetary / Civilizational Systems Science
			\| 2010 – Present
			\| Human civilization studied as a complex adaptive planetary system
			\| Anthropocene systems, socio-technical networks
			\| [[Peter Turchin]], [[Geoffrey West]]
			\| SFI urban scaling research
			\| Applies complexity thinking to civilization-scale dynamics
			\|}

	= Major Thinkers on Emergence and Complex Systems =		= Major Thinkers on Emergence and Complex Systems =

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			We should abandon disciplinary-only thinking, but not disciplines themselves

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