Complexity Theory: Predictions Based on the Confluence of Science-Wide and Behavioral Theories
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Streufert (in this special issue) has discussed the confluence of science-wide and behavioral complexity theory. Even though the former attempts to find common processes in all the sciences and the latter theory has, to date, limited itself to human behavior, there are many similarities in approach and in explanations of observed phenomena. Differences between the two theories are minor in comparison to their commonalities. Considering the many similarities, it may be useful to confirm (and possibly extend) behavioral complexity theory. A number of theorems, many familiar, some slightly modified, some new, will be provided at the end of this paper.
Science-wide complexity theory (e.g., Capra, 1982; Holland, 1995; Kauffman, 1992, 1995; Kelly, 1994; Stewart, 1989; Wheatley, 1992), as reviewed by Streufert (in this issue), postulates wide commonalities in dynamic processes across all the sciences.
