Complexity and Simplicity

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71453-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Transdisciplinary Studies

This book is the outcome of an original and interdisciplinary undertaking by the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists based in Wroclaw, Poland. One of the fundamental objectives of the Academy is to improve and foster communication between outstanding representatives of various fields of science, the humanities and art. In this regard to close the gap between the sciences, humanities and the arts and replace it with a unifying yet diverse vision of human cognition – a group of over 50 scholars and artists were asked to present their perspectives on the concepts of “complexity” and “simplicity” in the form of articles or artworks that made reference to their specific disciplines. Hence, the material presented in this compilation may serve as an interdisciplinary source of inspiration for a wide variety of readers. The choice of the main theme – complexity, simplicity, and the various kinds of thought-provoking dialectics unfolding between these – was motivated by a comprehensive and ongoing debate observable in the area of the methodology of the sciences as well as in various spheres of art.

Contributors are: Ewa Blaszczak, Krzysztof Boczkowski, Malgorzata Cebrat, Jaroslaw Drapala, Marcin Drag, Magda Dubinska-Magiera, Adrian Foltyn, Dorota Frydecka, Lukasz Huculak, Jakub Jernajczyk, Urszula Komarnicka, Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Marek Krajewski, Piotr Kruk, Artur Krezel, Marta Migocka-Patrzalek, Magdalena Rowinska-Zyrek, Bartlomiej Skowron, Karol Strizyk, Magdalena Witkowicz, Roland Zarzycki, Justyna Ziólkowska and Katarzyna Zon.

Contributing artists are: Justyna Bas´nik, Pawel Bas´nik, Tomasz Dobiszewski, Zuzanna Dyrda, Karolina Freino, Wieslaw Goluch, Mariusz Gorzelak, Jaroslaw Grulkowski, Marek Grzyb, Magda Grzybowska, Lukasz Huculak, Piotr Jedrzejewski, Jakub Jernajczyk, Antonina Joszczuk-Brzozowska, Ivan Juarez, Piotr Kmita, Michal Knychaus, Miroslaw Kocinski, Anna Kolodziejczyk, Marzena Krzeminska-Baluch, Agnieszka Lesniak-Banasiak, Ula Lucinska, Beata Mak-Sobota, Karina Marusinska, Marcin Mierzicki, Kamil Moskowczenko, Joanna Opalska-Brzecka, Bozena Sacharczuk, Artur Skowronski, Eugeniusz Smolinski, Dominika Sobolewska, Karolina Szymanowska, Anna Trojanowska, Justyna Zak

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blaszczak, Ewa

Cebrat, Malgorzata

Jernajczyk, Jakub

Skowron, Bartlomiej

Urbanska, Weronika

Zarzycki, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

List of Authors Including Their Specializations

1 Introduction

Ewa Blaszczak, Malgorzata Cebrat, Jakub Jernajczyk, Bartlomiej Skowron, Weronika Urbanska and Roland Zarzycki

2 A Dispute over Acting Methods

Krzysztof Boczkowski

3 V(D)J Recombination: How Simple Elements Lead to a Complex System for Antigen Recognition

Malgorzata Cebrat

4 Degrees of Complexity in the Recognition of Substrates by Proteolytic Enzymes

Marcin Drag

5 Shocking Harmony

Magda Dubinska-Magiera and Ewa Blaszczak

6 Can Consonance Be Explained with Mathematical Proportions? The Simplicity and Complexity of Harmonic Relations in Music

Adrian Foltyn

7 Reinforcement Learning Tasks: From Complexity to Simplicity

Dorota Frydecka and Jaroslaw Drapala

8 Art: A Particularly Sophisticated Simplicity

Lukasz Huculak

9 The Complexity of a Straight Line

Jakub Jernajczyk

10 Simplifying Complexity: Copper(I) Complexes with Phosphines Derived from Peptides to Enhance Cancer Treatment

Urszula K. Komarnicka and Ewa Blaszczak

11 The Complexity of the New Media

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech

12 The Simplicity and Complexity of Philosophical Discourse: Two Different Ways of Reasoning about the Stoic Postulate of Premeditation of Evils (Praemeditatio malorum)

Marek Krajewski

13 The Complexity and Simplicity of Zinc Proteins: Minimum Form, Maximum Substance

Artur Krezel

14 Why Do We Use Simple Organisms to Model Complex Human Diseases?

Marta Migocka-Patrzalek

15 The Beauty and Simplicity of the Complex Biological Chemistry of Metals

Magdalena Rowinska-Zyrek

16 On Simplificatory and Diversificatory Aspects of the Presentation of an Object

Bartlomiej Skowron

17 The Complexity and Multifacetedness of Conversation

Karol Strizyk, Piotr Kruk, Justyna Ziólkowska, Bartlomiej Skowron and Magdalena Witkowicz

18 Algorithmic Truth Theory (ATT)

Roland Zarzycki

19 Some Comments Regarding the Digitalisation of the Health Care System in Poland during the COVID-19 State of Epidemic: Selected Legal Aspects

Katarzyna M. Zon

20 Works of Art

Contributing Artists

21 Conclusions

Ewa Blaszczak, Malgorzata Cebrat, Jakub Jernajczyk, Bartlomiej Skowron, Weronika Urbanska and Roland Zarzycki

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ewa Blaszczak, Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Rennes 1, France, (2015), MSc in Medical Molecular Biology from the University of Westminster, UK (2010). Currently, a university professor at the Medical University of Lublin with a research interest in the molecular mechanisms of cancer progression and invasion.

Malgorzata Cebrat, Molecular Immunologist, Researcher, Lecturer, and Beekeeper. Ph.D. in Biology at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy. Currently Head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology at the Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw.

Jakub Jernajczyk, Visual Artist, Popularizer of Science, Ph.D. in Arts, MA in Mathematics. He focuses mainly on the cognitive aspects of visual imagination in art and science. Dean of the Doctoral School at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw.

Bartlomiej Skowron, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2012), BSc in Mathematics (2011). Wisdom lover, Platonist, Mathematical Philosopher. Currently developing a dynamic theory of ideas, in which he fiercely defends a contemporary form of Platonism. An assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology.


Weronika Urbanska, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy, expert in polymetallic waste recycling and raw materials management. Scientist at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Academic Tutor, President of Academy of Young Scholars and Artists (2023-2025).

Roland Zarzycki, Ph.D. in mathematics, Mh.D. in Humanities, affiliated with Collegium Civitas, a transdisciplinary researcher interested in sociology, social and political economy, critical political thinking and the role of fantasy and ideology in everyday life.