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A top-down, bottom-up model of circuit function for anxiety and depression.

A great review article describes the bottom-up and top-down processing from Marr’s computational-algorithmic-implementation perspective to understand depressive and anxious disease states. The review illustrate examples of bottom-up processing as basolateral amygdala signaling and projections and top-down processing as medial prefrontal cortex internal signaling and projections. Understanding these internal processing dynamics can help us better model…

walterstiers

2023-08-06

Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Design for Well-Being and Sustainability

Design for Well-Being and Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework of the Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Reuse Platform in the Circular Economy investigates how to infuse well-being components into the circular economy. Based on the literature review, it organized and analyzed the extant evidence of related well-being-based research to develop an ecosystem model of a sustainable product–service system…

walterstiers

2023-08-06

#sense-making, Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

“Fitness” Beats “Truth”

The “Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem” provides a quantitative measure of the extent to which the fitness-only strategy dominates the truth strategy, and of how this dominance increases with the size of the perceptual space. The FBT Theorem supports the Interface Theory of Perception. The Interface Theory of Perception is discussed and described in detail in 2015 by…

walterstiers

2023-07-23

#sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Walking in nature is probably the highest ROI activity I have in my life.

Feeling stuck? Go for a walk. There is no mental block strong enough to outlast the power of a 30-minute walk. It’s a fact that some of your most creative moments come during periods of boredom. • On a walk • In the shower • Driving in silence • At dinner by yourself You’re bored,…

walterstiers

2023-07-22

Life Ideas, Walking

#ProblemSolvingMind

What Do I Do …

Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) is a scientist at Tufts University; his lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making at multiple scales of biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. Today, Michael posted 2 simple flowcharts, worthwhile sharing. “Many thoughtful people get destabilized by deep questions of science & philosophy – what are the implications for how to live life?…

walterstiers

2023-07-17

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

coffee, nope ….

I used to drink it, long time ago, a little bit… coffee. I’m happy without – and the evidences are being presented more and more. Coffee consumption decreases the connectivity of the posterior Default Mode Network (DMN) at rest. The obvious clear title of a recent paper. A very readable summary is offered by Frontiers…

walterstiers

2023-07-17

Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

The Physics of Survival

Please enjoy the fascinating discussion of the free energy principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead, a leading thinker exploring the intersection of math, physics, and philosophy and Director of Research at VERSES. The 2 hour discussion includes great details on FEP. The FEP was proposed by renowned neuroscientist Karl Friston, this principle offers a unifying theory…

walterstiers

2023-07-17

Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Uncategorized

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

Complexity, Entropy & the Physics of Information

The specter of information is haunting sciences. With these words, Wojciech H. Zurek invited fellow scientists to attend the 1989 Santa Fe Institute workshop on which this proceedings volume is based. Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, the quantum theory of measurement, the physics of computation, dynamical systems, molecular biology, and computer science — information remains central to the…

walterstiers

2023-07-13

Biology of Information, Information Technology, Science

#PhysicsOfInformation, #Wicked

How Constraints Create Coherence

This entry is a pointer to the long-expected work of Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything, How Constraints Create Coherence how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation. Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrerochallenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are…

walterstiers

2023-07-12

#Cynefin, #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Some Advise on AI (research)

“Look for somewhere that you think everybody’s doing it wrong.” Geoffrey Hinton Pioneering artificial-intelligence researcher Geoffrey Hinton, who quit his job at Google so he can speak freely about the dangers of the technology, says young researchers should trust their intuition to find alternative ways of doing things. (University of Toronto video | 46 min…

walterstiers

2023-06-30

#sense-making, AI, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

AI can distort human beliefs

Without a zone of uncertainty plus other troubling features, generative AI is poised to amplify bias and falsehoods, distort human perception. Individual humans form their beliefs by sampling a small subset of the available data in the world. Once those beliefs are formed with high certainty, they can become stubborn to revise. Fabrication and bias…

walterstiers

2023-06-23

#Sensemaking, AI, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

#HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

The IDEA (Internal Dominance over External Attention )

Sam Verschooren and Tobias Egner published “ When the mind’s eye prevails: “The Internal Dominance over ExternalAttention (IDEA) hypothesis“. The IDEA hypothesis asserts, contrary to the traditional view of attention as being primarily externally oriented, that attention is inherently biased toward internal information. Mine inner sense predominates in such a way over my five senses…

walterstiers

2023-06-22

Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#ProblemSolvingMind

The self is an illusion

The truth is that your left brain has been interpreting reality for you your whole life, and if you are like most people, you have never understood the full implications of this. This is because we mistake the story of who we think we are for who we truly are. “Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of…

walterstiers

2023-06-16

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

I must admit … meditative walking is, indeed, a practice.

The next time you feel stuck or have a problem you can’t solve, I encourage you to try a productive meditation. Occupy yourself with a routine activity and contemplate a well-defined problem, with the precise goal of finding a solution. The change of pace allows you to access big-picture thinking, a chance to mentally step…

walterstiers

2023-06-08

#sense-making, Life Ideas, Walking

#TheInformationLens

Facts are not enough

Claude Garcia & Patrick Waeber developed a framework based on behavioural and cognitive sciences, game theory, and set theory that helps us understand decisionmaking in the context of uncertainty. It was published recently in a nice article on the researchfeatures of researchoutreach. Every single day we make thousands of decisions. Even if it is unclear…

walterstiers

2023-05-19

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Policy

#ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Decoding reward–curiosity conflict in decision-making from irrational behaviors

Humans and animals are not always rational. “Decoding reward–curiosity conflict in decision-making from irrational behaviors” discusses the fact humans not only rationally exploit rewards but also explore an environment owing to their curiosity. However, the mechanism of such curiosity-driven irrational behavior is largely unknown. The article develops a decision-making model for a two choice task…

walterstiers

2023-05-19

#Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

Creativity in Motion

Some publications related to this topic: Embodiment and Human Development It is becoming increasingly accepted that the study of cognitive, social, and emotional processes must account for the embodiment of these processes in living, acting people. Within cognitive science, how bodily factors play a role in mental life is often considered through the lens of…

walterstiers

2023-05-09

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Uncategorized

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Legs move, thoughts flow : Physical exercise influences creative thinking

I only give a summary of the article, lacking the capability to understand and read the native language. Still, the summary is very interesting: Creative thinking is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to a problem, of which divergent and convergent thinking are two common types. Evidence shows that physical exercise may influence…

walterstiers

2023-05-09

Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Walking

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence

Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction

I found – rather serendipitous – this recent, open access and very interesting book “Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction“, edited by Springer 2023. This Open Access book presents the current state of the art knowledge on social and affective neuroscience based on empirical findings. Some highlights as appetiser: Molecular Imaging of the…

walterstiers

2023-05-09

#Sensemaking, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Walking

#DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Avoid the Hijack – Be Emotionally Intelligent

An 80-Year Harvard Study Shows Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Wiser Model to Handle Strong Emotions Don’t let your emotions hijack your actions.Slow down and choose better with the Wiser model. What follows is based on the original text of an Inc.com article by Jessica Stillman, dated May 4, 2023.The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are…

walterstiers

2023-05-05

#Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence

Affect and Decision Making (computational models)

Decision science evolve towards the use of formalized mathematical and computational models of choice (such as sequential accumulator or driftdiffusion models, DDMs). These may represent a key step forward, butonly if they properly incorporate the conceptual and theoretical richness of the affective sciences. Computational models increasingly inform our understanding of decision processes, but the influence…

walterstiers

2023-05-02

#sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

“gone too far”

The history of movement has faced a crisis relationship between two elemental human phenomena: 1. On one hand there is the principle of economy—the human aspiration to reduce physical and mental efforts to a minimum, 2. and on the other hand there is the adaptation principle—the natural dependence of human beings on movement. The principle…

walterstiers

2023-04-25

Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical, Walking

#TheInformationLens

How Capitalism WASTES Billions

Mariana Mazzucato’s Tour De Force Professor Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most exciting economic thinkers.Her new book – THE BIG CON – exposes how consultancy firms are eating up billions upon billions of pounds working on government projects and using the capitalism game-rules. You won’t think of our economic system the same way…

walterstiers

2023-04-22

#sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Policy

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

A new theory of embodied consciousness has been described by Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio in Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking. Forget ‘I think therefore I am’. feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed as secondary to reason, feelings are where consciousness begins. Without them, consciousness is impossible – with radical implications for the ‘hard…

walterstiers

2023-04-21

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens