Organized by
International Research Unit of Advanced Future Studies (IRU-AFS), Kyoto University
Co-organized by
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, International Research Unit of Integrated Complex System Science (IRU-CSS), Kyoto University, and Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research (C-PIER), Kyoto University, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto
Venue：
International Conference Hall III (2nd floor) in Clock Tower, Kyoto University
Scope:
Nature is full of emergent problems. Beyond our understandings, our efforts to solve these problems often cause additional problems. We should need revolutionary paradigm shifts in our practical approach from solving and approaching problems already appeared in the past to predicting and protecting the emergence of problems in the future. For this purpose, we should realize that there must be the same driving forces that generate the emerging problems on the one hand, and that allow us to predict the problems which will appear in the future on the other hand. The same forces would be thus the double-edged sword: wonders and benefits.
The present workshop would, therefore, consider paradoxical way of thinking based on self-similarity and self-difference, often considered incompatible with each other. Using such a paradoxical way of thinking, we would like to explore simple principles beyond complexity. Actually, simple principles of complex dynamics could be deduced from the demand that the underlying principles should be self-consistent, regardless of the space-time scale with which we are concerned.
