Complex thinking: building a new paradigm

Abstract

Complexity is a term that in recent decades has designed a wide range of procedures and approaches to address problems in science. More recently they have been employed in many areas of knowledge. In general, complexity seeks to walk the difficult path of simplicity (reductionism) and strict causality, to better representation of reality, i.e. the things of the world. Many believe, including this writer, that the complex would consist of a new paradigm based on science. This text is far from exhausting the subject; we present some aspects of this thinking, including conceptual and epistemological considerations and applications. It lends itself as a first guide for exploration. So they are not provided references for further throughout the text, they appear at the end, grouped by topic or by author, in a similar way as places to be visited during an  exploration trip.