Modelagem da pandemia Covid-19 como objeto complexo (notas samajianas)

Abstract

The aim of this text is to present the covid-19 pandemic as a complex object, based on a proposal of heuristic modeling guided by occurrence plans and hierarchical interfaces. For this, first of all, I briefly introduce the thoughts of Juan Samaja, Argentine scholar representative of the epistemology of complexity. Secondly, I present the holopathogenesis theory, a conceptual elaboration directly derived from Samaja’s theory of hierarchical interfaces. Thirdly, I apply this proposal of complex modeling to understand the emergence of covid-19 as a problem, aiming to formulate an integrative perspective that might contribute to overcome the pandemic. Finally, I propose using the category of overdetermination to enrich this effort of theoretical understanding with an organizing scheme of transdisciplinary knowledge on the covid-19 pandemic.