A Paradigm for Systems Thinking as a Real-Time Approach for Human Adaptation in the 21st Century
Melissa J. Mills
Contemporary neuroscientists, human anthropologists,
biologists, and psychologists suggest that the human species is
still evolving. The productivity of science, research, education
and capital investment can be seen in the phenomenal growth of
the human population. Yet the trajectories that have brought us
to the present-day apex of material well-being and social health
are not sustainable. How can we take the deep advances in
distinct academic disciplines and bring them together in ways
that inform and coordinate human ingenuity to meet and
address the challenges of the 21st century? By taking
contemporary research results from a broad range of disciplines
and applying them to human dynamics through definable
structures, humans are empowered to leverage their capacity to
find solutions through joint intention. Full Text
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