John Smith, Chris JenksQualitative Complexity
Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory
John David Smith is a pastor, author, and speaker with over 30 years of ministry and teaching experience. His work explores the intersection of faith, emotional honesty, and spiritual formation. As the founder of Scribe & Canvas Publishing, he is committed to creating resources that foster healing, reflection, and authentic connection with God. Unspoken: 12 Devotions for What We Carry in Silence is his first devotional in the 12-Devotions for the Journey Series, written for those navigating quiet struggles and unspoken burdens. John lives and serves in South Carolina.
Part 1: The Interdisciplinary Field 1. Complexity Theory: A Positioning
Paper 2. From Descartes' Conjecture to Kant's Subject and the Computo 3.
Autopoiesis in Cognitive Biology 4. Emergentism, Evolutionary Psychology
and Culture 5. Prigogine's Thermodynamics, Ontology and Sociology Part 2:
Critical Developments 6. Modernism and Determinism: Linear Expectations and
Qualitative Complexity Analyses 7. Complexity Theory as a Critique of
Postmodernism 8. Cognition and the Renewal of Systems Theory: Redundant
Idioms and Disputed Positions 9. The Evolution of Intelligence,
Consciousness and Language: Implications for Social Theory 10. Complexity,
Language and Culture: Social Systems in Qualitative, i.e. not Formal Terms
Part 3: The Fields of Complex Analysis: Contemporary Complexity Theory 11.
The Ethics of Pragmatism: Politics and Post-Structuralism in Transition
after the Complexity Turn 12. The Topology of Complexity 13.
Re-Interpreting Global Complexity as an Ontology: Human Ecology
