%0 Journal Article
%T Sensing risk, fearing uncertainty: systems science approach to change
%A Ivo P. Janecka
%J Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fncom.2014.00030
%X Background: Medicine devotes its primary focus to understanding change, from cells to network relationships; observations of non-linearity are inescapable. Recent events provide extraordinary examples of major non-linear surprises within the societal system: human genome-from anticipated 100,000+ genes to only 20,000+; junk DNA-initially ignored but now proven to control genetic processes; economic reversals-bursting of bubbles in technology, housing, finance; foreign wars; relentless rise in obesity, neurodegenerative diseases. There are two attributes of systems science that are especially relevant to this research: One¡ªit offers a method for creating a structural context with a guiding path to pragmatic knowledge; and, two¡ªit gives pre-eminence to sensory input capable to register, evaluate, and react to change.
%K change
%K risk
%K uncertainty
%K systems science
%K chaos
%K entropy
%K cancer
%K neuro-degeneration
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00030/abstract