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We may extend the complexity of our framework of causal modelling of interaction by introducing new, more complex entities like those of more complex systems, as a way of modelling complex organisms, instead of latent variables only. Such organisms can be relatively simple organisms or more complex organisms. Because this book has a focus on new thinking in complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities, we take the human beings as subject of study as complex human organisms. In this section we want to describe, understand and explain human beings in their interaction.
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This black line in the print version is somewhat harder to see.
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This is commonly based on the low values for correlations between the variables as measured in actual research.
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We may remind the reader that the generative functions of the total effects on A and on B are not dependent on time as a variable itself but only indirectly through increase of the β-values in the course of time.
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Interestingly, they use descriptions like e.g., postpositivistic, qualitative, hermeneutic and humanistic as alternative aliases for this paradigm (p. 7).
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We may refer here to Freud’s conception of the mental, about mental phenomena as “brought about by the play of forces in the mind”, in his “General introduction to psychoanalysis” (see Globus 1995, p. 109).
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See her wonderful book (2008) with the title A Book of Silence.
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Appendices
Annex 14.1 Main Possibilities of Combinations of Interaction
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Ensembles of latent variables in their cooperative intra-action, showing cooperative inter-action within a loop |
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Annex 14.3 Information About “Timewriter” by Lonny van Ryswyck, Atelier NL, The Netherlands
Timewriter
2006 | Lonny van Ryswyck
Time seems to move on a circular, repetitive, infinite path.
360º a minute, 360º an hour. The future becomes present, the present becomes past, the past becomes future. Constantly replacing each other on the clock, the three states of time become indefinable.
The Timewriter is a mechanical instrument made to measure and register time. Using four numerical stamps it imprints time, tracing it, on paper every minute. Time is described and recorded as a continuous linear progression.
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Jörg, T. (2011). The Complexity of Human Interaction. In: New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1303-1_14
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