{"product_id":"context-changes-everything-isbn-9780262545662","title":"Context Changes Everything","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the influential author of \u003ci\u003eDynamics in Action\u003c\/i\u003e, how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence. In \u003ci\u003eContext Changes Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, Juarrero shows that coherence is induced by enabling constraints, not forceful causes, and that the resulting coherence is then maintained by constitutive constraints. Constitutive constraints, in turn, become governing constraints that regulate and modulate the way coherent entities behave. Using the tools of complexity science, she offers a rigorously scientific understanding of identity, hierarchy, and top-down causation, and in so doing, presents a new way of thinking about the natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuarrero argues that personal identity, which has been thought to be conferred through internal traits (essential natures), is grounded in dynamic interdependencies that keep coherent structures whole. This challenges our ideas of identity, as well as the notion that stability means inflexible rigidity. On the contrary, stable entities are brittle and cannot persist. Complexity science, says Juarrero, can shape how we meet the world, how what emerges from our interactions finds coherence, and how humans can shape identities that are robust and resilient. This framework has significant implications for sociology, economics, political theory, business, and knowledge management, as well as psychology, religion, and theology. It points to a more expansive and synthetic philosophy about who we are and about the coherence of living and nonliving things alike.I\u003cbr\u003e1 What Went Wrong? The Backstory 3\u003cbr\u003e2 The Path Forward 21\u003cbr\u003eII \u003cbr\u003e3 Constraints: An Introduction 35\u003cbr\u003e4 Context-Independent Constraints 49\u003cbr\u003e5 Why Context Matters--An Interlude 59\u003cbr\u003e6 Context-Dependent Constraints 67\u003cbr\u003e7 Catalysts, Loops, and Closure 87\u003cbr\u003e8 An Abundance of Constraints 103\u003cbr\u003e9 Persistence--Delaying the Second Law 129\u003cbr\u003e10 Sedimentation and Entrenchment 143\u003cbr\u003e11 Many-to-One Transitions, Effective and Analog Control 155\u003cbr\u003e12 Of Holons, Holarchy, Heterarchy, and Hierarchy 177\u003cbr\u003eIII\u003cbr\u003e13 The Backstory, Today 197\u003cbr\u003e14 Multiple Realization and Supervenience: A Philosophical Case Study about Constraints 211\u003cbr\u003e15 Empirical Research on Delayed Response: Neuroscience Case Studies about Constraints 223\u003cbr\u003e16 Concluding Remarks 233\u003cbr\u003eNotes 239\u003cbr\u003eReferences 247\u003cbr\u003eIndex 263“Wholes and aggregates, context and history, causes and effects: these axes are at the heart of identity and mental causation, as Alicia Juarrero demonstrates in this illuminating book showing how constraints underlie possibility. Highly recommended.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—George Ellis, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Systems thinking at its finest! Juarrero clearly shows how context-dependent constraints ‘change the go of things’ as informational causes in complex systems.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kevin Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eFree Agents: How Evolution Created the Power to Choose\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInnate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAlicia Juarrero is President and co-founder of VectorAnalytica, Inc., and a research associate at the University of Miami. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDynamics in Action \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300981985509,"sku":"NP9780262545662","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545662.jpg?v=1767724078","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/context-changes-everything-isbn-9780262545662","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}