Complexity and aesthetics: How arts, sciences, and economics coevolve

This paper presents the ideas of the late Tonu Puu regarding how arts, sciences, and economics interact and coevolve. This involves complex nonlinear dynamics with critical bifurcations occurring at crucial points that transform the paradigm or system involved. Centrally important is how influences from one area influence another, even from the arts to the sciences and economics and back again. Thus the role of generalists is important in progress of humanity and must be encouraged.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.