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Abstract
The goals and targets included in the 2030 Agenda compiled by the United Nations want to stimulate action in areas of critical importance for humanity and the Earth. These goals and targets regard everyone on Earth from both the health and economic and social perspectives. Reaching these goals means to deal with Complex Systems. Therefore, Complexity Science is undoubtedly valuable. However, it needs to extend its scope and focus on some specific objectives. This article proposes a development of Complexity Science that will bring benefits for achieving the United Nations' aims. It presents a list of the features shared by all the Complex Systems involved in the 2030 Agenda. It shows the reasons why there are certain limitations in the prediction of Complex Systems' behaviors. It highlights that such limitations raise ethical issues whenever new technologies interfere with the dynamics of Complex Systems, such as human beings and the environment. Finally, new methodological approaches and promising research lines to face Complexity Challenges included in the 2030 Agenda are put forward.Entities:
Keywords: Complex Systems; Computational Complexity; Emergence; Natural Computing; Networks; Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics
Year: 2021 PMID: 33527036 PMCID: PMC7838468 DOI: 10.1007/s12210-020-00972-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rend Lincei Sci Fis Nat ISSN: 2037-4631 Impact factor: 1.627