complexity1

Discipline that studies life and its complex phenomena.
  
Moving out of the exclusive concept of the single discipline (physics, mathematics, economics, biology, etc.), notions intertwine in order to provide a more global perspective that is closer to the real world ("single elements" inserted in the "complex system"). Complexity science tries to observe and interpret the reasons for the movements of “complex systems”, from cellular automata to the human brain (with its billions of neurons), from economic models to ecosystems. “complexity levels”, “emerging properties”, “self-organization”, “environment and adaptation”, “balance of order and chaos” are terms and concepts that you will often find in this science.
 
The current project features a harmonic use of several disciplines, such as psychology, ethics, phylosophy, epistemology, anthropology, information technology, linguistics, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, biology, genetics. A model of human thought (that of the wicked manipulator) is traced with an aim to observe and explain the reasons for his/her mental activity and resulting action.

Contributions by single discipline:
 
LINGUISTICS
Communicative options. The use of the glossary structure enables a direct educational approach to word definition. It is a fast and simple method to avoid stopping at the meaning of a word, as this can be easily grasped by the context of the situation described.
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Technologic means. Definitions are not to be consulted in a necessarily sequential fashion, as they are presented at random and are connected to each other. Every definition contains links to other definitions. As a result, the reader can participate more actively by choosing his/her own path while browsing the site. Every person will make his/her own way through the glossary, according to his/her own perceiving and reading styles. His/her interactivity will further be fostered by a space where he can leave his/her own comments or use a forum provided for the purpose.
 
COGNITIVE SCIENCES, NEUROSCIENCES, BIOLOGY, GENETICS
Hardware (the visible part). These disciplines have provided information and suggestions as to how the brain is made and works, imprinting and its organic development through the life of a human being, its interaction with, and projection to, the outer world, the energy it moves through its actions, stimuli, perceptions, electric circuits and mental configurations and processes like acquisition, information processing, memorization and answer.
The interlinked definitions represent a similitude with complexly multi-connected neurons, and the browsing process represents the identity and path of any single abstract thought as is perceived and possibly expressed by human conscience.
 
ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY
History. The evolution of the human being and his/her philosophic and scientific thought in relation to the world around. It is actually a form of co-evolution whereby the human being receives and gives (more and more) stimuli from and to the environment, which he/she himself/herself is an integrated part of.
 
PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHICS
Software (the invisibile part). The main part of the psycho-glossary. Psychology has specifically contributed in terms of in-depth knowledge of the unconscious, animosity, roots and primal instincts, all those “obscure, deep, ancestral and unresolved” mental aspects driving the person which cut out the conscious, aware and rational part of his/her mind.
In its turn, ethics’ contribution consists in stressing that the behaviors dictated by the automatisms of the unconscious are often old, inadequate or even harmful for a social structure and human individual having evolved throughout history. Moreover, by this evolution they are learning new methods of education, survival and conscious handing down of the knowledge acquired. These complex and intelligent methods are much more in line with the development of their personality and the preservation of the environment.

By way of conclusion, one must say that cautiousness is indispensable for a very young (only 40-50 years) frontier science whereby, for the first time ever, the human being has been able to concretely perceive a tiny part of the global order of things and rules that move the universe.