Weather Report - Human Report

Title: Weather Report - Human Report

Author: Jan van Riemsdijk

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789059721944

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Description:
The discovery of chaos theory gave scientific research access to the events within complex and dynamic systems. This depends on varied starting conditions and develops further from these spread conditions, according to its own mathematical rules. An example of the phenomena that chaos theory deals with is the possibility that the wingbeat of a butterfly forms the basis of something that grows into a hurricane. This is known as the butterfly effect. The author addresses the question of what will change in our view of humanity if we apply chaos theory to the biological world of our experience. He does this with the help of references to the developments that occurred within meteorology. In this way he wants to familiarize the reader, in an indirect and gradual way, with new and unexpected developments that were set in motion by the availability of chaos theory. To what extent can our climate be predicted by us? To what extent can the changes within our environment be controlled? Weather report Mensbericht is interesting for anyone who is interested in the question of whether, and to what extent, our world can also be made by us. Jan van Riemsdijk (1931) studied clinical psychology, obtained his doctorate in social sciences and worked as a psychologist at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht. He was also general secretary of the Council for the Arts, and subsequently professor-director of the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten. He then delved into neurobiology. He previously published, among other things, De bestorming van het brein, Het lied van de neuronen, Mensbeeld (Tussenstand in een Ontdekkingsreis) and Bochtige Wegen.