
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
ABSTRACT
Diversifying what is reductionistic and unifying what is systemic or
relational ways in science and technology are delineated. The limits of
these epistemological approaches considered independently, justify the
need of their specifi c blending and balance.
Refl ecting different aspects, physical, technological, scientifi c and socio-
economical the projects assign the polytopic character in the way we are
looking for necessary messages into multipart objects that can be seen
from different perspectives.
Keywords: categorifi cation, complexity, convergence, divergence, duality,
n-levels, polytope, reductionism, self-evolvability ...