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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.
Мгн.: Магнитогорский государственный технический университет им. Г.И. Носова, 2025.
The collection contains the materials of the XVI International Scientific Conference "The Worldview Foundations of the Culture of Modern Russia". The presented works reveal the worldview foundations, social, spiritual, moral, and informational factors of the culture of modern Russia. The collection can be useful for specialists, postgraduate students, senior students, and anyone interested in philosophy. ...
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LePoire D., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Journal of Big History 2025 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 98–139
Building on foundational work in systems theory, thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory, this paper argues that complexity can serve as a conceptual bridge across disciplines. It explores the role of complexity dynamics in Big History through an integrative theoretical framework that spans physical, chemical, geological, biological, social, cognitive, and civilizational domains. By examining how complexity emerges, ...
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Pichugina V., Диалог со временем 2025 № 91 С. 287–303
The article examines the epithets beginning in "The Odyssey" with the prefix πολυ. They are applied to the main character and allow us to see the process and result of the formation of his heroic prowess. Even though the epithet "πολύτροπος" is used in the poem only twice and can formally be attributed to rare ...
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Tekic A., Tekic Z., Journal of Business Research 2025 Vol. 197 Article 115444
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, as spatially bounded resource allocation systems, are vital for the growth and scale-up of new ventures by facilitating access to financial, human, and social resources, which are considered to be essential for fostering Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. However, there is significant heterogeneity in resource endowments of high-impact ecosystems, challenging the prevailing thesis in entrepreneurial ecosystem ...
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LePoire D., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 495–525.
This volume, “Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions” explores the aspects and proposals for periodization of Big History. This includes considering cross-cutting aspects of measuring complexity (e.g., energy, information, or a combination), considering different mechanisms of natural selection, developing a set of criteria to base the evaluation of frameworks, and ...
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Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 101–157.
The point that within the Big History the decelerating growth of complexity in the Universe observed after the Big Bang can be contrasted with the accelerating growth of complexity traced on our planet for four billion years after the emergence of life on the Earth has been already noticed on quite a number of occasions. ...
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Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 49–71.
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy”. These words of Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg undoubtedly deserve attention, although they dramatize the origins of interest in the problems of the Universe. ...
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LePoire D., Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 1–27.
Not so many would argue with identifying complexity as a central concept in Big History and universal evolutionism. It is partly because, perhaps, today, many of us are convinced that not only our world but Universe itself is in a state of major change, and the awareness that we are living in a period of ...
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Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions
David J. L., L. Grinin, Korotayev A., Springer, 2025.
In the editors’ introduction (Chapter 1), the effort to periodize is placed within the historical context along with considerations from complexity science. Subsequent chapters explore various aspects of periodization and complexity by (a) identifying symmetrical cosmic and biosocial trends, (b) testing rigor and criteria for evaluating periodization, (c) attempting to integrate different approaches through multiple ...
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Glebov O., Человек 2025 Т. 36 № 3 С. 48–63
In the academic environment there is a widespread prescription of V. V. Rozanov's work as incoherent and unsystematic. This assessment is due to the lack of study of Rozanov's early theoretical work (“Study of the idea of happiness as the idea of the supreme beginning of human life”, “On Understanding”). However, these works define the ...
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Asatryan G., Kalpakian J., Rethinking History 2022 Vol. 26 No. 1 P. 116–118
For a serious academic work, this book is very enjoyable and can be said to have appeal beyond its expected academic readership. It takes analytical categories used to understand the present and looks at how they were applied in the past and how Medieval people, primarily but not exclusively in Europe, understood them. Specifically, the ...
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Девликамов Р. Т., Метаморфозис 2024 Т. 9 № 1 С. 22–32
The article presents the author’s attempt to identify and comprehend the philosophical presuppositions of the artistic worldview of A.S. Pushkin and M.Yu. Lermontov by means of comparative analysis of similar plots in the poets’ works. To identify the philosophical premises, the article compares the fate of demons in Lermontov’s poem ‘‘Demon’’ and in Pushkin’s poems ...
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Кикина И. В., Serkin V., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2024 № 1(116) С. 22–37
This article discusses the theoretical and philosophical, ethical, religious and psychological foundations of the agape love phenomenon and describes the results of a qualitative study of the worldview attitude and the agape love phenomenon in modern personalities. ...
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Sokolshchik L., Sokolshchik Y., Russian Politics 2023 Vol. 8 No. 4 P. 468–492
The following article addresses the question of why, despite a handful of certain overlapping interests, the U.S and Russia ultimately failed to reach a compromise during their negotiations at the start of the Ukrainian crisis. We aim to reveal the effects of competing national security narratives from both the United States and Russia, and its ...
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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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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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Zenkin S., Логос 2021 Т. 31 № 5 С. 91–114
© 2021, Gaidar Institute Press. All rights reserved.The article examines some salient points in the historical usage of “worldview” and “picture of the world” as concepts that were developed in various versions by European thinkers and scholars during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Although the common, non-technical use of those terms may differ from the ...
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Belov A., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2022 Т. 7 № 2 (26) С. 176–185
The work describes and analyzes the monograph of L.P. Naydenova “The Life of a Russian Man of the 16th-17th Centuries (Faith, Family, Everyday Affairs)”. It was published in 2020. In it, the author considers issues of the inner world of a person, his relationship with loved ones, and his place in the family. Many of ...
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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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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 ...
Added: May 17, 2022
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019.
Gathering the proceedings of the 11th CHAOS2018 International Conference, this book highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical and complex systems. The conference was intended to provide an essential forum for Scientists and Engineers to exchange ideas, methods, and techniques in the field of Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, Fractals and their applications in General Science and the ...
Added: October 29, 2021
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 ...
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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