The last few decades have witnessed the development
of a host of ideas aimed at understanding and predicting
nature's ever present complexity. This page includes
three papers that explain how such a work provides,
through its detailed study of order and disorder,
a suitable framework for visualizing the dynamics
and consequences of mankind's ever present divisive
traits. The specifics of each paper, published in successive issues of the Journal E:CO, Emergence: Complexity and Organization in 2006, are:
Lessons from
complexity: The hypotenuse the pathway of peace
explains how recent universal results pertaining
to multiplicative cascades and fully developed
turbulence entice all of us, in a logical way,
to seek peace in a condition typified by the hypotenuse
of a right-angled triangle.
More lessons
from complexity: The origin the root of peace
explains how recent universal results pertaining
to the transition from order to chaos via a cascade
of bifurcations point us to a serene state, symbolized
by the convergence to the origin in the root of
a Feigenbaum's tree, in which we all may achieve
our inherently desired condition of justice and
peace.
Yet more lessons
from complexity: Unity the key of peace explains
how recent universal results pertaining to power-laws,
self-organized criticality and space-filling transformations
provide additional and pertinent reminders that
point us to unity as an essential element for
us to achieve peace.
For additional information regarding this work visit the pages for the books The Hypotenuse and The Fig Tree and the Bell and the related class Chaos, Complexity and Christianity.
The file From Complexity to Peace includes the transparencies of a recent talk based on the ideas herein. To listen to such a talk, open the media files below.
Archived Web Cast: Real
Player | Windows
Media Player
For yet additional information regarding the lessons, consider the three papers On the nature of equilibrium, Faith lessons from chaotic fig trees, and On the unitive art of the Holy Trinity, published and submitted to the science and religion journal Omega, and the two posters The simple geometry of peace and Urgent spiritual lessons from scientific chaotic fig trees recently presented at the 2008 NFLC conference.
Contact Information:
Carlos Puente is available to share presentations about his work on peace. Contact him at cepuente@ucdavis.edu.
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