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Original Articles

COMPLEXITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMAN POUCY MAKING

Pages 1-11 | Received 11 Mar 1982, Published online: 31 May 2007
 

Abstract

Properties characterizing complexity are woven together with research on human information processing and behavioristic psychology to produce a theory of human limits. It is suggested I hat coupling the human and complexity, in problem solving situations, can be viewed at a design problem where an interface device is needed to link the human lo complexity, Interpretive Structural Modeling is discussed as an example of such an in I efface device. In addition, it is proposed that a language specifically designed to help humans deal with complexity be developed. The necessary properties of such 3 language arc presented, and it is argued that Interpretive Structural Modeling already possesses some of these properties.

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