(PDF) Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations - researchgate.net  ## Metadata - Author: **researchgate.net** - Full Title: (PDF) Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296421407_Complexity_and_planning_Systems_assemblages_and_simulations ## Highlights - So what can be said about planning in a non-linear world? There is a serious danger in using metaphors and analogies, and copying ideas, concepts and models from other disciplines, hoping for links that might not even exist. We must be critical and cautious in our quest for a non-linear understanding of the world in support of planning actions and strategies. There is, however, much in favour of the quest. There might be a whole new world to discover, which will bring new perspectives to spatial planning and decision-making. Rather than the technical (means-end approaches) and communicative rationales (consensus through interaction), entirely different ontologies will emerge, with adaptivity as a likely possibility. An adaptive rationale, representing the non-linear mode of our environment, would or could result in adaptive planning - This adaptive rationale leads to differential fitness and relative survival. All in all, adaptivity involves finding a balance between coherence and diversity, robustness and dynamics, and order and chaos. This balance is called ‘fitness’ or ‘resilience’. - Tags: #intelligence #biology