System Science would be yet another field that was siloed into its different separate parts rather than coming at it from integral perspective. I think that's a human failing if you will a human part of our human condition. We have to address what is it about us that makes us incapable of relinquishing all these comforts and so forth. And people are studying climate. You know they keep saying we've got to stop pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If we don't do that by a certain date we aim over.
George Mobus is Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, Tacoma. His broad academic background saw him conduct research on artificial intelligence, cybernetics and systems science.
George joins me to discuss how systems science is failing to grasp the polycrisis—that the field has been split into silos, leaving most systems scientists without the tools to model the complexity of the emergency we face.
He also explains the neurological limits of individual human wisdom, suggesting the agricultural revolution affected our capacity for abstract thinking, before revealing how humans can work past those limits—collectively.
Planet: Critical investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.
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