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Complex Systems Frameworks Collection

Complex Systems Frameworks Collection The Complex Systems Frameworks Collection is a gerat resource for navigating an increasingly complex world. Over time, people have developed many excellent frameworks, analogies and models for understanding complexity. This collection brings them together in an illustrated collection to help you: Because complex isn’t the same as complicated. Each framework has its…

walterstiers

2025-12-19

#Cynefin, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Something Disturbing Happens … With ChatGPT

“Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT” (Text and image are from the original article) ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are replacing the search engine. Instead of letting you suffer the laborious task of looking up sources of information, these powerful large language models will simply concoct an answer for you, with the…

walterstiers

2025-12-16

#Sensemaking, AI, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, openai, technology

Keep the hands in mind

Keep the hands in mind: A meta-analysis of correlations between fine motor skills and reading, writing, mathematics, and cognitive development in children and adolescents” Evidence suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) relate to academic and cognitive development; however, findings are unclear, strewn across multiple disciplines, and lack adequate synthesis. We conducted the first comprehensive meta-analysis…

walterstiers

2025-12-11

Biology of Information, Complexity, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, education, health, learning, mental-health, teaching

Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development

“Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” Highlights: The human brain undergoes a protracted course of development that provides prolonged opportunities to be sculpted by experience. Yet, persistent definitional and measurement challenges have complicated efforts to understand how experience interacts with neuroplasticity during human development. Here, we synthesize previously siloed perspectives to propose an…

walterstiers

2025-12-09

Active Inference, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, brain, health, mental-health, wellness

Statistics is not measurement

“Statistics is not measurement: The inbuilt semantics of psychometric scales and language-based models obscures crucial epistemic differences” This article provides a comprehensive critique of psychology’s overreliance on statistical modelling at the expense of epistemologically grounded measurement processes. It highlights that statistics deals with structural relations in data regardless of what these data represent, whereas measurement…

walterstiers

2025-12-08

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, philosophy

Why collective behavioursself-organize to criticality

“Why collective behaviours self-organize to criticality: a primer on information-theoretic and thermodynamic utility measures” Collective behaviours are frequently observed to self‑organize to criticality. Existing proposals to explain these phenomena are fragmented across disciplines and only partially answer the question. This primer compares the underlying, intrinsic, utilities that may explain the self‑organization of collective behaviours near…

walterstiers

2025-12-08

#Wicked, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, Science, technology

Collective predictive coding

“Collective predictive coding as model of science: formalizing scientific activities towards generative science” This article proposes a new conceptual framework called collective predictive coding as a model of science (CPC‑MS) to formalize and understand scientific activities. Building on the idea of CPC originally developed to explain symbol emergence, CPC‑MS models science as a decentralized Bayesian…

walterstiers

2025-12-08

#sense-making, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, Science

The ‘made-up mind’.

“The ‘made-up mind’. Deriving new hypotheses on delusions from general psychological models of belief maintenance” Highlights Contemporary definitions of delusions highlight their resistance to conflicting evidence as the core feature, but there has been little progress in understanding why even explicit confrontation with contradicting evidence seldom leads to belief revision. This review aims to generate…

walterstiers

2025-12-08

#sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, AI, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, Science

Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization

“Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization” “Whom you observe in your daily life alters your willingness to tax the rich” Recent research suggests that the visibility of extreme wealth within a person’s social circle drives their support for economic redistribution but simultaneously fosters political polarization and personal dissatisfaction. A study published in PNAS Nexus combines computational…

walterstiers

2025-12-06

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, economics, economy, history, news, politics

Nature on the balance sheet …

“Putting nature on the balance sheet: how to account for the ecological costs of our actions” Economists should consider forests and wetlands as well as factories and farms. A book review of “On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us“, Partha Dasgupta (2025) On Natural Capital recaps the roaring economic advances of the past 75…

walterstiers

2025-11-24

#stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom

#DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, environment, nature, Sustainability