Complex Systems Co-Design

By John Motloch

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320739736_Complex_System_Co-Design_Pathway_to_becoming_an_appreciative_system

Paper

• Paper downloaded to wiki: File:CSCD.pdf
• MJ - paper short on impactful current methods, rich in high level Level 5 systems thinking.

Notes

• This paper sees complex adaptive systems (CAS) as “appreciative systems” [7] where entities actively and creatively participate in the reality they help create.
• To unlock cognitive complexity, we can learn how to live within CAS metabolic flows, how to harvest rather than

mine resources, and how to internalize all costs, resist disinformation and culturally induced ignorance 3 [28], and sustain positive eco-balance. [17]

Primary to tertiary support systems of the earth.

• The phases of cognitive complexification go from a reductive view to an appreciative view (view of agency or active and creative participation in reality creation). Tension is between the individual and collective. Resolution is simply to terminate the illusion of separateness.

From reductionist to appreciative cognition.