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Smart Cities, a concept widely growing in popularity, describes cities that use digital technology, data analysis and connectivity to create value. The basic abstraction of a Smart City service includes collecting data about an urban issue, transmitting it to a central decision making process and “improving” the city with the insights generated. This model has spurred much critique, claiming Smart...
There are different concepts of what complex systems are, and as a result, there are also many approaches for how to define and measure their complexity. The current paper argues that the very representation of a system can indicate what its complexity is, and how to measure it. The paper represents systems from a communication perspective. From this perspective, a system interacting with its environment...
I claim that explanations of human behaviour by Edward O. Wilsonand Charles Lumsden are constituted by a religiously functioningmetaphysics: emergent materialism. The constitutive effects areidentified using six criteria, beginning with a metaphorical re-description of dissimilarities between levels of organization interms of the lower level, and consist of conceptual andexplanatory reductions (CER)...
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