PSY435H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Sulfur Dioxide, Thermohaline Circulation, General Idea
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An angry beast: the idea of a fully deterministic world is one where we can understand the reasoning behind everything, past, present, and future. Theories of relativity and quantum indeterminism now prevail: small differences may have big results. This is one of the reasons it is impossible to have determinism being prominent. These small differences can often lead to chaos. Humans have the capacity to learn, and such, can change their chaotic behaviours: chaotic behaviour is often observable in wild populations. Ecologists are now adopting the idea that populations are in constant flux and have many possible stable states. Multiple equilibria: epistemologies are the understanding to how complex systems work. There is a subtle relation to our simple mental models of the frameworks themselves: there are 2 dominant epistemologies. The first is a science of parts. " it stresses careful analysis and data collection and testing of theories. The second, is the science of integration of these parts.
