DOI
ISSN 2038-5242

Summary
The anthropological transformation we are undergoing shows the urgency of rethinking teaching and training, underlining the substantial inadequacy of our schools and universities in dealing with hypercomplexity, with the global extension of all political, social and cultural processes, with their indeterminateness, interdependence and interconnection. The idea that educational processes are questions of a purely technical and/or technological nature, solely
a problem of skills and know-how, is a “great mistake” of the hypertechnological society, based on the illusion of being able to measure, simplify and quantify everything, to eliminate error and unpredictability, to achieve total control and rationality. It is necessary to rethink education radically because the extraordinary scientific discoveries and the dynamics of the new technologies have completely overturned the complex interaction between biological and cultural evolution, doing away with the borders between the natural and the artificial, leading us not towards simplification, but in quite the opposite direction.

Relevance for Complex Systems Knowledge
First of all, however, it is necessary to teach analytical and critical thinking to people, enabling them to use their own heads (and to question themselves
and others around them), instead of simply accepting the standard answers/solutions, and to
see “objects” as “systems”, rather than vice-versa (Dominici P., 1995-2019). Above all, in dealing with the above issues, one must take care not to give in to the temptations of simplistic solutions, of deterministic explanations or of easy reductionism. We have an urgent need for explanations and analyses based on data and research, but we also have a tremendous need for a critical theoretical approach to complexity, which will allow us to save ourselves from the quicksand of mono-causal determinism, and also (on a less worrisome level), from a prosaic acritical neophilia that has led us to convince ourselves, in recent years, that all that
is new is fantastic.

Point of Strength
Going beyond mono-causal determinism