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Big History, Complexity Theory, and Life in a Non-Linear World
Ch. 10. P. 183-196.
Bondarenko D. M., Baskin K.
Big History emerged as part of this non-linear way of understanding the world. What the co-authors of this paper discovered in working together is that the insights of Complexity Theory, which studies the dynamics of non-linear systems, integrate powerfully with Big History. On one hand, it offers an approach to the dynamics, grounded in work in physics, chemistry, and biology, that Big History studies. On the other, it offers an avenue to a more comprehensive view of the challenges and possible solutions of a non-linear world.
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Vol. 3: The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society and our Future. , Delhi : Primus Books, 2017
Degterev D. A., Сравнительная политика 2021 Т. 12 № 4 С. 82-97
The paper is dedicated to the key methodological problems of international and regional studies and the prospects for the formation of a unifi ed, «seamless» methodology. The author's refl ections are illustrated by examples from the collective monograph, ed. by Alexei D. Voskressenski “The Logic of the New World Architectonics and the Strategies of the ...
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Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Rodrigue B., , in : From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations. A Big History Anthology Volume III. The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society and Our Future. : Primus Books, 2017. P. 3-15.
Big History is a new field that has been gaining ground rapidly around the world. It deals with the universe's grand narrative of 13.8 billion years and attempts to provide a connection between our past, present and future. Appearing in three volumes, this is the first international anthology of Big History. The first volume, Our ...
Added: October 23, 2017
Malkov S. Y., , in : The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. A Big History Perspective. : Switzerland : Springer, 2020. Ch. 23. P. 517-534.
Using mathematical modeling, we consider the phenomenon of singularity in the biological and social history. It is shown that hyperbolic trends in biological and social evolution can be explained by transitional processes that accompany the expansion of ecological niches due to periodically occurring revolutionary innovations. During these periods, strong positive feedbacks are actualized, leading to ...
Added: February 3, 2020
Grinin L. E., David B., Eather Q. et al., , in : Teaching & Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field. : Volgograd : Uchitel, 2014. P. 7-18.
Big History has been developing very fast indeed. We are currently observing a ‘Cambrian explosion’ in terms of its popularity and diffusion. Big History courses are taught in the schools and universities of several dozen countries, including China, Korea, the Netherlands, the USA, India, Russia, Japan, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, and many more. The International ...
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Korotayev A., LePoire D., , in : The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. A Big History Perspective. : Switzerland : Springer, 2020. P. 599-620.
This concluding chapter summarizes major findings of the present collective monograph. It traces the emergence of accelerating innovation rates through history and the major historical transformations through the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. It draws on the concepts from physics and evolutionary biology to offer potential models of the underlying mechanisms driving this acceleration ...
Added: November 13, 2020
Bondarenko V., Ilyin I., Korotayev A., World Futures 2017 Vol. 73 No. 8 P. 511-538
In his 2011 article “Global Bifurcation: The Decision Window” Ervin Laszlo notes that “we have reached a watershed in our social and cultural evolution. The sciences of systems tell us that when complex open systems ... approach a con- dition of critical instability, they face a moment of truth: they either transform or break down.” ...
Added: October 12, 2017
Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., David B., , in : Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Aspects & Dimensions of Global Views. : Volgograd : Uchitel, 2014. P. 321-328.
Global studies can be made not only with respect to the humans who inhabit the Earth, they can well be done with respect to biological and abiotic systems of our planet. Such an approach opens wide horizons for the modern university education as it helps to form a global view of various processes. However, we ...
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Chemodanov D., Esposito F., Calyam P. et al., IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2019 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 127-142
Virtual network services that span multiple data centers are important to support emerging data-intensive applications in fields such as bioinformatics and retail analytics. Successful virtual network service composition and maintenance requires flexible and scalable “constrained shortest path management” both in the management plane for virtual network embedding (VNE) or network function virtualization service chaining (NFV-SC), ...
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Puchkin N., Zhivotovskiy N., IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2022 Vol. 68 No. 7 P. 4651-4665
We show that in pool-based active classification without assumptions on the underlying distribution, if the learner is given the power to abstain from some predictions by paying the price marginally smaller than the average loss 1/2 of a random guess, exponential savings in the number of label requests are possible whenever they are possible in ...
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Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Марков А., , in : From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations. A Big History Anthology Volume III. The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society and Our Future. : Primus Books, 2017. P. 158-199.
Comparison of biological and social macro-evolution is a very important issue, but it has been studied insufficiently. Yet, analysis suggests new promising possibilities to deepen our understanding of the course, trends, mechanisms and peculiarities of the biological and social phases of Big History. This article analyzes similarities and differences between two phases of Big History ...
Added: October 23, 2017
Mospan A., Leontiev D., Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2021 Т. 18 № 1 С. 109-128
Worldview beliefs related to freedom vs. determinacy in the surrounding and inner world are the focus of active discussion and research in psychological science. The paper presents the results of approbation and construct validation of the Russian-language version of the freedom/determinism beliefs inventory FAD–Plus by D. Paulhus and J. Carey. The results of the research on the ...
Added: April 8, 2021
Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Alexander V. M., , in : Evolution: A Big History Perspective. : Volgograd : Uchitel, 2011. P. 158-198.
Comparison of biological and social macro-evolution is a very important issue, but it has been studied insufficiently. Yet, analysis suggests new promising possibilities to deepen our understanding of the course, trends, mechanisms and peculiarities of the biological and social phases of Big History. This article analyzes similarities and differences between two phases of Big History ...
Added: October 14, 2014
Switzerland : Springer, 2020
This book introduces a 'Big History' perspective to understand the acceleration of social, technological and economic trends towards a near-term singularity, marking a radical turning point in the evolution of our planet. It traces the emergence of accelerating innovation rates through global history and highlights major historical transformations throughout the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. ...
Added: January 27, 2020
Baskin K., Bondarenko D. M., Emergence: Complexity and Organization 2018 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 1-11
In this essay, we use the word “processual,” the adjectival form of “process,” to mean “relating to or involving the study of processes rather than discrete events”. Understanding this processual model is critical for readers of this journal because, in many ways, Complexity Theory studies the patterns that emerge as phenomena evolve in a processual ...
Added: April 22, 2018
Vlasenko S. V., В кн. : Язык, коммуникация, перевод: контрасты и параллели : материалы V Международной научной конференции по актуальным проблемам теории языка и коммуникации : сб. ст. Т. II.: М. : ЗАО "Книга и бизнес", 2011. С. 584-594.
This report addresses a number of translation problems which made themselves conspicuous in domain-specific communication. The quoted English–Russian translation examples are treated as translation precedents within the translation studies, psycholinguistics, and communication theory frameworks. Challenges related to dissimilar worldviews objectified in texts generated in the source-language and the target-language are analyzed; the discrepancy is gaining ...
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Akopov S., Russian Politics 2021 Vol. 6 No. 4 P. 453-477
Russia’s use of force in Ukraine has been described as a challenge to the rule of international law and an event of unilateral intervention. This paper provides a reinterpretation of this standard history of Russian revisionism. Our new history places this practice in a global governance context through an analysis of the politics concerning the ...
Added: October 29, 2021
Чиронова И.И., Современные научные исследования и инновации 2013 № 12
The paper considers the ralationships between translation and intercultural communication, highlights some translation problems connected with cultural determinancy of the source text, finds out factors that create difficulties for translators and gives examples of translators' successful decisions and their failures. ...
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Volgograd : Uchitel Publishing House, 2022
The present Yearbook is subtitled Historical and Technological Dynamics: Factors, Cycles, and Trends. Its articles demonstrate different forms, patterns, and modes of evolutionary development of societies and their subsystems both over very long periods (in fact, the whole historical process) and over relatively short time intervals. We believe that without an in-depth analysis of the ...
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Grinin L. E., Grinin A., Korotayev A., , in : The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. A Big History Perspective. : Switzerland : Springer, 2020. Ch. 15. P. 287-344.
In this chapter, we consider the process of technological progress presenting one of the options for measuring its speed throughout the entire historical process. We find that the general dynamics of accelerating technological growth over the past 40 thousand years can be described with amazing accuracy (R2 = 0.99) using the following simplest hyperbolic equation: yt = C/t0 − t, where yt is the ...
Added: February 3, 2020
Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., , in : Evolution: Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms. : Volgograd : Uchitel, 2013. P. 5-17.
The present volume is the third issue of the Almanac series titled ‘Evolution’. The first volume came out with the sub-heading ‘Cosmic, Biological, and Social’ (Grinin et al. 2011), the second was entitled ‘Evolution: A Big History Perspective’ (Grinin, Korotayev, and Rodrigue 2011).
When we started the publication of the Evolution Almanac, we proceeded from the ...
Added: October 10, 2014
Korotayev A., Journal of Big History 2018 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 73-119
The idea that in the near future we should expect “the Singularity” has become quite popular recently, primarily thanks to the activities of Google technical director in the field of machine training Raymond Kurzweil and his book The Singularity Is Near (2005). It is shown that the mathematical analysis of the series of events (described ...
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Blucher Y., Коммуникации. Медиа. Дизайн 2022 Т. 7 № 1 С. 140-173
The article examines the emergence of new compositional techniques in the field of modern illustration, comics, and other areas of visual arts, due to the emergence of new technical tools and programs, the influence on the formation of visual patterns and principles of consolidation in mass culture.
The attempt to classify such techniques in contemporary visual ...
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Delhi : Primus Books, 2017
Big History is a new field that has been gaining ground rapidly around the world. It deals with the universe's grand narrative of 13.8 billion years and attempts to provide a connection between our past, present and future. Appearing in three volumes, this is the first international anthology of Big History. The first volume, Our ...
Added: February 22, 2018
Volgograd : Uchitel, 2014
Big History has been developing very fast indeed. We are currently observing a ‘Cambrian explosion’ in terms of its popularity and diffusion. Big History courses are taught in the schools and universities of several dozen countries, including China, Korea, the Netherlands, the USA, India, Russia, Japan, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, and many more. The International ...
Added: October 9, 2014