Anthro-complexity

Complexity, the science of uncertainty allows us insight into reality; anthro-complexity, the science of human complex adaptive systems, allows us to co-create new realities out of the crisis.

The study of complexity as it is experienced in human systems, rather than mechanistic or natural (animal and geological) systems. Human systems have a higher degree of complexity for many reasons, including, for instance, the different behavioural patterns that identity-structures create and how they act within different contexts.

Cynefin Centre takes a transdisciplinary view and create a new field based on cognitive science and anthropology - the Human aspects of Complex Adaptive Systems.

Anthro-complexity has evolved from Cognitive Complexity

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Cynefin is a framework established within the naturalising school of sense-making and sees natural sciences as a constraint on understanding of human behaviour in organisations and societies.

Complexity science on its own is not enough as humans also possess intelligence, identity and intention (the three ‘I’s of anthro-complexity) so we also draw on cognitive neuroscience, aspects of anthropology, constructor theory and other frameworks.