Interdisciplinary Sciences
for a Complex World

About the rules of nature that govern our lives

It is easier to succeed with the laws of nature than against them.

If we want to know how the world really works and what laws nature lays down for our lives and our social systems, physics in its present form is of only limited help. And economics also reveals major gaps here.
In the search for how the dynamics and complexity of our world works, i.e. all that actually determines our lives in everyday life, my interdisciplinary research showed that there is apparently not only 1 principle at work in the world, but that there are 2 principles that challenge us. Complementary principles of order and chaos - also called hierarchical and heterarchical principles or yin-yang principles - determine according to this the dynamics and complexity of our world (see figure). The monistic world view thus becomes a dualistic one.

And, as the mathematician Gödel already showed almost 100 years ago, the world consists systemically of several logical islands which are separated by undecidabilities and may even contradict each other, paradoxes are therefore allowed (see figure). So the world is structured differently than we would like it to be ... and thus not consistently logical. For scientific research at universities this is a big problem, because publications are based almost exclusively on logics of a single island and overall pictures with undecidabilities and possible contradictions are not in demand or the research is quickly overwhelmed with it. Decisions from the point of view of a single island, however, are very dangerous, as can be seen from the CO2 problem and Covid-19 strategies.
So we have to learn to think systemically, especially since the architecture of the system we live in has completely changed since the „tipping point“ about 20 years ago - something that was hardly noticed in economics and politics. With far-reaching consequences (see also Physiconomics). As a consequence of this tipping point, we now live in an increasingly nonlinear, highly complex and highly unstable system. It is therefore necessary to deal more intensively with chaos theory and complexities and also to research which functions stabilize complex systems and which can also cause them to collapse. In order to then come across the elementary law of nature, the various facets of evolution. From my point of view, it is the law that connects all sciences. And it is the basis for an insight from mathematics, for game theory.
These interdisciplinary insights are the tool I use to try to better analyze and understand real and potential crises from an overall perspective and to deal with them more successfully in lectures and consulting sessions with decision-makers from the business world.