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Humans are not just complex adaptive systems; we are flourishing adaptive systems (FAS), because we have human aspirations and tend to flourish. Our wisdom system is multidimensional, and it develops over time. A flourishing adaptive system is guided by its wisdom system to achieve a higher purpose. It seems plausible to augment human practice by developing 8 particular dimensions of wisdom or “wisdom senses”. Further exploration of these 8 wisdom senses could lead to designing “wise organizations”, and even developing “synthetic flourishing adaptive systems”, exploring the frontiers of “artificial wisdom”.
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Suarez, J.F. (2014). Flourishing Adaptive Systems (FAS). In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2014 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 434. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07857-1_11
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