La complejidad humana consiste en un entramado de tiempos

Carlos Eduardo Maldonado

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The human complexity consists of a weave of various time-scales

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Carlos Eduardo Maldonado Universidad El Bosque http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9262-8879

No. 73 (2022): March

Abstract

This paper claims that human complexity is directly proportional to considering and studying various times, all of which have a common ground in biology. The claim brought out entails a twofold argument. One says that complexity in general is time, which means straightforwardly that time is not a sheer variable. The second argument argues about the need for and importance of an epistemology of time. The latter argument emerges a second claim vis-à-vis the main one. At the end two clear cut conclusions are drawn, thus: a) the material ground for science is nowadays not physics any more but biology; however, biology and culture make a solid unity, something that is made evident thanks to epigenetics; b) human actions can be explained by virtue of different times prior to a second, all of which are projected onto larger and more dense time scales. The human and social sciences can benefit enormously from such a depicted frame.

Keywords:

time, temporality, epistemology, complexity

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Maldonado, C. E. (2022). The human complexity consists of a weave of various time-scales. Cinta De Moebio. Revista De Epistemología De Ciencias Sociales, (73), 14–23. Retrieved from https://actascoloquiogiannini.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/66683