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In the information age, design in biological, environmental, and human thinking systems provide tools for change. This is an evolving process that is in continual flux. Creative solutions to problems started with stone axes and continue into the information age.
Ecology of the brain applies a neuroscientific perspective to the process of information exchange between the brain and events in the environment. Information is redefined as events reflecting the interaction of two or more systems that change one or more of the systems. Information streams in a continual flow throughout the brain. This redefinition is used to describe how the nervous system interacts with events in the environment to create real and virtual realities, as seen in fMRI studies.
Ecology of creativity presents a model from neuroscience that provides a platform for examining the feedback loop of subprocesses of creative brain functioning in interaction with complex systems in communities. This section explores the transformation of symbols in terms of identic and metamorphic changes which are subprocesses of creative thinking. People enhance their creativity and high-order thinking using strategies presented in this section.
Ecology of design in living systems, namely, micro, meso, and macro, provides a structure for studying complex design systems interacting with ecological environmental events. Obstacles can be overcome by using a system of benchmarks for behaviors and systems functioning to evaluate success toward achieving the goals.
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Miran, M.D., Miran, E., Chen, N. (2012). Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment. In: Swan, L., Gordon, R., Seckbach, J. (eds) Origin(s) of Design in Nature. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4156-0_30
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