--- abstract: |- As science, knowledge, and ideas evolve and are increased and refined, the branches of philosophy in charge of describing them should also be increased and refined. In this work we try to expand some ideas as a response to the recent approach from several sciences to complex systems. Because of their novelty, some of these ideas might require further refinement and may seem unfinished, but we need to start with something. Only with their propagation and feedback from critics they might be improved. We make a brief introduction to complex systems, for then defining abstraction levels. Abstraction levels represent simplicities and regularities in nature. We make an ontological distinction of absolute being and relative being, and then discuss issues on causality, metaphysics, and determinism. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: January 7-11 conference: |- The First Biennial Seminar on the Philosophical, Methodological First Biennial Seminar on the Philosophical, Methodological and Epistemological Implications of Complexity Theory confloc: 'La Habana, Cuba' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Gershenson given: Carlos honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-11-19 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/19/00 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Sotolongo given: Pedro honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1900 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/1900/3/ComplexPhilosophy.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Complexity, Philosophy, Ontology, Abstraction Levels, Determinism, Causality' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:49 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Bar-Yam, Y. (1997). Dynamics of Complex Systems. Addison-Wesley. Conway, J. (1970). The Game Of Life. Gershenson, C. (1997). El Juego de la Vida en Tres Dimensiones. Memorias X Congreso Nacional Sobre Informática y Computación, ANIEI. Monterrey, México. Gershenson, C. (1998) Lógica multidimensional: un modelo de lógica paraconsistente. Memorias XI Congreso Nacional ANIEI, pp. 132-141. Xalapa, México. Gershenson, C. (1999). Modelling Emotions with Multidimensional Logic. Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS 99), pp. 42-46. New York City, NY. Gershenson, C. (2001). Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents. Unpublished BEng Thesis. Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth, México. http://132.248.11.4/~carlos/asia/asia.html Gödel, Kurt (1931). Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme, I. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik, vol. XXXVIII, pp. 173-198. Mandelbrot, B. (1998). Multifractals and 1/f Noise: Wild Self-affinity in Physics (1963-1976). Springer. New York. Priest, G. and Tanaka, K. (1996). Paraconsistent Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Schopenhauer, Artur. (1819). Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Turing, A. M. (1936-7). On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proc. London Math. Soc. (2), 42, pp. 230-265. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:41:37 subjects: - phil-metaphys - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Complex Philosophy type: confpaper userid: 1753 volume: ~