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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/analysing-complexity
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课程名称：分析复杂性 课程概述：本课程是“分析复杂性”专项课程的第一部分，将教你识别所有复杂问题核心的统一模式。通过将自己领域的知识以新的视角呈现，来深化对此领域的理解。 课程结构： 第一周：“什么是复杂性？”——探索所有复杂问题的核心。 第二周：“复杂物理系统”——研究无生命世界中复杂问题的共性。 第三周：“复杂适应系统”——探讨自然界中复杂问题的共通性。 第四周：“复杂文化系统”——分析人类社会中复杂问题的共同特征。 第五周：“复杂性、脆弱性与崩溃”——理解复杂问题的产生原因。 第六周：“人类世中的复杂性”——讨论当今我们面临的复杂问题。 课程大纲： - **什么是复杂性？** 欢迎参与解决复杂问题专项课程的第一模块。该模块将广泛探讨复杂性及其与我们的关系，逐步聚焦于这一普遍且全方位概念的不同方面。 - **复杂物理系统** 在本模块中，我们将研究复杂性如何在无生命宇宙中运作，揭秘物理、化学和地质之间的相互联系，并探讨这些联系如何反映所有复杂性的基本规则。 - **复杂适应系统** 本模块将探讨适应系统内复杂性的逐步增加以及适应对不断演变的复杂系统游戏规则的影响。 - **复杂文化系统** 在这个模块中，我们将关注一个更强大的适应系统——文化。我们将调查这种新形式复杂性的根源，以及其如何影响我们对人类社会（我们所知的最复杂系统）功能和演变的思考。 - **复杂性、脆弱性与崩溃** 本模块将关注复杂性的衰退。通过探讨复杂系统的维持或增加，我们需要真正理解所有复杂系统（物理、生命及文化）如何及何时崩溃，以及这些崩溃之间的共同点。 - **人类世中的复杂性** 通过对各种复杂系统的探索及相关风险的认识，本模块将考察这些关切如何影响我们当今的人类世时期，在这里人类面临着许多复杂系统的衰退和崩溃的威胁。 本课程将为您提供全面的复杂性分析视角，帮助您在面对复杂问题时更加自信有效。
Name:What is complexity?
Description:Welcome to the first course of our specialisation on solving complex problems! In this module, we will be looking at complexity in the broadest sense and how it relates to us. From there we will zoom in to different aspects of this universal and all-encompassing concept.
Name:Complex Physical Systems
Description:In this module, we'll look at how complexity operates in the inanimate universe, the corresponding links between physics, chemistry, and geology and how they reflect the ground rules of all forms of complexity.
Name:Complex Adaptive Systems
Description:In this module, we'll explore the ratcheting up of complexity inside adaptive systems, and the impact adaptation has on the rules of the game for constantly evolving complex systems.
Name:Complex Cultural Systems
Description:In this module, we'll look at an even more powerful adaptive system - culture. We'll survey what is at the root of this new form of complexity and how this impacts our thinking about how human society, the most complex system of which we are aware, functions and evolves.
Name:Complexity, Fragility, and Breakdown
Description:In this module, we'll look at the decline of complexity. So far we've focused on how complex systems sustain or increase themselves. In order to truly understand every angle of all complex systems - physical, biological, and cultural - we need to understand how and when they collapse, and what all those breakdowns have in common.
Name:Complexity in the Anthropocene
Description:Now that we've explored the different kinds of complex systems and have some idea of the risks and dangers involved, this module will look at how these concerns impact us in the present Anthropocene epoch, where humanity faces many threats of decline and collapse amid the most complex system that we know of in the visible universe.
The first course of the specialization ANALYZING COMPLEXITY will teach you what unifying patterns lie at the core of all complex problems. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. ANALYZING COMPLEXITY is constructed in the following way: Week I. "What is Complexity?" - What is at the core of all complex problems Week II. "Complex Physical Systems" - What complex problems all have in common in the inanimate world Week III. "Complex Adaptive Systems" - What complex problems all have in common in nature Week IV. "Complex Cultural Systems" - What complex problems all have in common in human society Week V. "Complexity, Fragility, and Breakdown" - Why complex problems arise Week VI. "Complexity in the Anthropocene" - What complex problems face us today
