ABSTRACT
In a complex world, the natural dynamics of the cognitive process exhibits an inherent tropism towards increasing complexity. The very reverse is the case: scientific progress is a matter of complexification because oversimple theories invariably prove untenable in a complex world. The psyche of beings able to internalize cognitively the operations of a complex world and respond in due resonance with these complexities must itself be an elaborate manifold of unified elements. Complexification and its concomitant destabilization are by no means phenomena confined to the domain of science—they pervade the entire range of our knowledge. For rational beings will of course try simple things first and thereafter be driven step by step towards an ever enhanced complexification. Scientific progress is of a nature that inherently involves an inexorable tendency to complexification in both its cognitive and its ideational dimension.
