O Social Emergente: sistemas adaptáveis complexos e interpretação histórica

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Abstract

The article discusses how the concepts of emergence and complex adaptative systems introduce a shift of paradigm in the Historical Sciences. The paper introduces a simple agent based model that shows how simple rules can produce complex evolution patterns. A set of pratical consequences is derived from the new paradigm in the form of principles that should be present in concrete Historical Research.

Keywords

Complex adaptative systems emergence historical research

Subject

Temporal Reasoning

Journal

Revista de História das Ideias, Vol. 19, Instituto de História das Ideias, January 1999