This is ambitious, but I do believe that every system primarily exists in the mind's eye of an OBSERVER...complex systems especially can't be truly understood without reference to the cognition and perspectives and worldviews of the people who are participating in and trying to understand them...no idea how to begin turning that into maths though!
I would agree that true understanding of any complex system requires accounting for the cognition and perspectives of those participating in and trying to understand the system.
I don't know if/how math could be used to capture this aspect of systemness. But I can imagine that collecting large amounts of EEG/MRI data over extended periods of time from the observers as they observe and participate could give us lots of useful formal data to unlock greater understanding...
This is ambitious, but I do believe that every system primarily exists in the mind's eye of an OBSERVER...complex systems especially can't be truly understood without reference to the cognition and perspectives and worldviews of the people who are participating in and trying to understand them...no idea how to begin turning that into maths though!
I would agree that true understanding of any complex system requires accounting for the cognition and perspectives of those participating in and trying to understand the system.
I don't know if/how math could be used to capture this aspect of systemness. But I can imagine that collecting large amounts of EEG/MRI data over extended periods of time from the observers as they observe and participate could give us lots of useful formal data to unlock greater understanding...