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The principles of complex systems suggest that the physical, social, and mental world is nonlinear, complex, random. This essential result of epistemology has important consequences for our present and future behavior. Science and technology will have a crucial impact on future developments. Thus this book finishes with an outlook on future, science, and ethics in a nonlinear, complex, and random world. What can we know about its future? What should we do?
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Mainzer, K. (2004). Epilogue on Future, Science, and Ethics. In: Thinking in Complexity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05364-5_8
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