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Beyond Black Swans: Inhabiting Indeterminacy

Beyond Black Swans: Inhabiting Indeterminacy

Dominici, Piero
Morin, Edgar

Hardcover

Series: Philosophical Studies, Book 160

PhilosophyGeneral ComputersGeneral Science

ISBN10: 3032090288
ISBN13: 9783032090287
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book describes the urgent need of modern humanity to renew and reinforce an open attitude to the complexity of life, above all by embracing its intrinsic indeterminacy, rather than attempting futilely to control its evolution. Oblivious to this ever-more urgent necessity, seduced by the speed and virality of digital pattern recognition, computing, and artificial simulation of human thought, society has reverted to a linear, deterministic concept of reality, under the belief that everything can be measured and managed, and that error and predictability will soon be eliminated from our lives and organizations. Consequently, choices and responsibilities have been delegated to technology, artificial intelligence and algorithms, even in educational institutions, which are now preoccupied with teaching mere skills and know-how, thus committing the fatal error of confusing artificial, mechanical, complicated systems with living, complex, adaptive systems.

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