Review - Cognition and Complexity: The Cognitive Science of Managing Complexity

This book addresses the problem of how to cope with the information explosion and the subsequent information-based complexity that characterizes our era. The human pattern of adaptation to information appears to consist of looking for discrepancies, ignore what is constant and quickly respond to sudden shifts. However, today the amount of change is huge, and we are constantly bombarded with information, no longer stumble upon change in the environment. Therefore we must learn how to cope with the information explosion and subsequent information-based complexity. Today it is important to develop the skill of learning, and to understand that to “learn how to learn” is more important that mere knowledge gathering.