The new scientific monograph has finally been published: ‘Beyond Black Swans. Inhabiting Indeterminacy’ (Springer Nature, 2026)

by The CHAOS Staff

About this book

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 unpredictability

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.

This volume is intended not only for

complexity/social scientists, philosophers and students, but to the curious

from all walks of life. It calls for learning to inhabit complexity, while

recognizing and participating in its interdependent, interconnected,

interactive systems of relationships. Dominici reveals the futility of

endeavoring to control the uncontrollable or observe the unobservable, showing

how self-organization and emergence, triggered from the smallest and most

modest elements, impact the entire system.

▶️ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-09029-4

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