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Symmetry–simplicity–complexity

A number of (the 15) contributions to a theme issue ‘Making and breaking symmetries in mind and life’ have some interest to be referred. Symmetry is a motif featuring in almost all areas of science. Symmetries appear throughout the natural world, making them particularly important in our quest to understand the structure of the world…

walterstiers

2023-04-16

#Wicked, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

#emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

States of Mind (SoMs): TD:BU balance

Noa Herz, Shira Baror, and Moshe Bar discuss in a 2020 opinion article the Overarching States of Mind.We all have our varying mental emphases, inclinations, and biases. These individual dispositions are dynamic in that they can change over time and context. The opinion article proposes that these changing states of mind (SoMs) are holistic in…

walterstiers

2023-04-16

Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Bayesian Nonlinear Models

The review article Bayesian Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data gives a valuation of the use for the Bayesian Model to solve complex problems. Nonlinear mixed effects models have become a standard platform for analysis when data is in the form of continuous and repeated measurements of subjects from a population of interest, while temporal…

walterstiers

2023-04-15

Active Inference, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

The innovation and intelligence of goats …

Goats have not (yet) earned a reputation for their problem-solving abilities. But if you hide food in a strange cup and put a lid on it, a goat may find a way, a new study finds. And not just any goat. Animals that functioned like outsiders in their social group were best at tackling and…

walterstiers

2023-04-06

Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

Interprofessional sense-making

Medical Emergency Departments serve as a main entry point for patients into hospitals, and the team, the core of which is formed by doctors and nurses needs to make sense of and respond to the constant flux of information. This requires sense-making, communication, and collaborative operational decision-making. The study’s main aim was to explore how…

walterstiers

2023-04-06

#Cynefin, #sense-making, Complexity, Information Technology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

Small steps

Small steps for mankind: Modeling the emergence of cumulative culture from joint active inference communication discusses a testable deep active inference formulation of social behavior and accompanying simulations of cumulative culture in two steps: First: cast cultural transmission as a bi-directional process of communication that induces a generalized synchrony (operationalized as a particular convergence) between…

Resemblance to reAIlity …

Questioner: How much will LLM impact human activity?Answer: Hmmm, the oncoming singularity?Q: YesA: Try … Tudor’s Graph. Q: What’s the data behind this?A: Seriously? Ok, let me make it clearer …

walterstiers

2023-03-28

#sense-making, AI, Information Technology, Innovation Games

#HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

Whatever the Problem, It’s probably solved by walking.

The title of this NYT opinion tells it all… Andrew McCarthy is the author of “Walking With Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain.” Walking is the worst-kept secret I know. Its rewards hide under every step. “walking is man’s best medicine.”“If you are in a bad mood, gofor a walk.…

walterstiers

2023-03-27

Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Sustainability, Walking

#TheInformationLens

Peter Pan ?

There is controversy around the mechanisms that guided the change in brain shape during the evolution of modern humans. It has long been held that different cortical areas evolved independently from each other to develop their unique functional specializations. Some recent studies suggest that high integration between different cortical areas could facilitate the emergence of…

walterstiers

2023-03-20

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Native language & connectome of the brain

Investigation towards the question if the neuroanatomy of the language structural connectome is modulated by the life-long experience of speaking a specific language are presented. The current study compared the brain white matter connections of the language and speech production network in a large cohort of native speakers of two very different languages: an Indo-European…

walterstiers

2023-03-20

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Social-Technical

#emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Perceived time & heartbeat

This blog entry about the Current Biology article “Perceived time expands and contracts within each heartbeat” relates perfectly to my previous blog on “cardiac activity: its role in perception and action“ Perception of passing time can be distorted. Emotional experiences, particularly arousal, can contract or expand experienced duration via their interactions with attentional and sensory…

walterstiers

2023-03-20

Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology

#emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Cardiac activity: its role in perception and action

Patterns of cardiac activity continuously vary with environmentaldemands, accelerating or decelerating depending on circumstances. Simultaneously, cardiac cycle affects a host of higher-order processes, where systolic baroreceptor activation largely impairs processing. However, a unified functional perspective on the role of cardiac signal in perception and action has been lacking. — Patterns of cardiac activity continuously vary…

walterstiers

2023-03-17

Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

#ActiveInference, #TheInformationLens

Human innovation depends on our collective brains

A recent study investigates hunters’ causal understandings of bow design and mechanics among the Hadza, one of the last remaining foraging populations. The results suggest that sophisticated technology can evolve without complete causal understanding. Human innovation depends not on our individual brainpower but on our collective brains, on networks of diverse minds sharing information, lucky…

walterstiers

2023-03-17

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#emergence, #TheInformationLens

With AI, we can’t

“Humans lie and manipulate each other’s emotions all the time, but at least we can reasonably guess at someone’s motivations, agenda and methods. With AI, we can’t.” Ethicist Carissa Véliz argues that chatbots that use emojis are emotionally manipulative: without appropriate safeguards, the technology could undermine people’s autonomy. A 2021 study found that people consistently…

walterstiers

2023-03-15

#sense-making, AI, Decision Intelligence, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #sense-making, #TheInformationLens

How Occam’s razor guides human decision-making

A rather complex but very interesting article was published @PennLibraries and (somewhat more recent) @bioRXiv But for those who want to understand by a lecture, I can recommend the Simons Faoundation lecture from Joshua Gold (also available on Youtube: How Occam’s Razor Guides Human and Machine Decision-Making) Occam’s razor is the principle stating that, all…

walterstiers

2023-03-03

#Wicked, AI, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

A map is not the territory it represents, but…

I quote one of the key ideas of my activities, as stated bij Korzybski: A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness Korzybski, “Science and sanity: An introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics.“ This post is created to…

walterstiers

2023-03-03

#Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Science, Social-Technical

#emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

4 kinds of creativity

HBR just published a nice article on 4 kinds of creativity.In the decades to come, creativity will be key to doing most jobs well. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin E.P. Seligman offer a new typology that breaks creative thinking into four types: – integration, or showing that two things that appear different are the same; – splitting, or seeing how…

walterstiers

2023-03-03

Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

#ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 ◦C ambitions

This article in Cleaner Production Letters studies the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (about 400 Gt CO2). Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionally to climate change. Findings suggest that…

walterstiers

2023-03-03

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Ten tips for facilitating emergent processes

I just discovered a nice medium article/blog entry from Sonja Blignaut on working towards emergent solutions for wicked situations. I just summarise, but details are in the article. Facilitating emergent group processes requires a different kind of facilitation. When you’re not working towards a predetermined outcome, following a pre-designed agenda, the following principles are helpful…

walterstiers

2023-02-27

#Cynefin, #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

“A New Evolutionary Law”

Revisiting Leigh Van Valen’s “A New Evolutionary Law” (1973) by Ricard Solé, (Biological Theory (2022) 17:120–125) Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Leigh Van Valen was an American evolutionary biologist who made major contributions to evolutionary theory. He is…

walterstiers

2023-02-25

Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science

#Ecosystem, #emergence, #Entanglement, #TheInformationLens

Ecosystems – Mutualism – Synthetic biology

Synthetic Mutualism and the Intervention Dilemma describes how ecosystems are complex networks of interacting individuals co-evolving with their environment. As such, changes to an interaction can influence the whole ecosystem. However, to predict the outcome of these changes, considerable understanding of processes driving the system is required. Synthetic biology provides powerful tools to aid this…

walterstiers

2023-02-25

Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Science

#Ecosystem, #Mutualism, #TheInformationLens

The Niche theory : Compete, Facilitate & Mutualisme

From competition to facilitation and mutualism: a general theory of the niche by Koffel, Daufresne and Klausmeier explores the niche theory. Niche Theory is a central framework in ecology based on the recognition that most interactions between organisms are indirect, mediated by the biotic and abiotic dynamical environment these organisms live in. Despite its potential…

walterstiers

2023-02-25

Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

#Ecosystem, #Mutualism, #TheInformationLens

Size and Weight

I already referred to “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”, in which two chapters refer to space & information correctness: This book was meant to be a review of the human stories behind programming, enabling those of us who don’t think much about code to recognize its importance, and those who work with it every…

walterstiers

2023-02-23

#Sensemaking, Information Technology, Science

#TheInformationLens

Can Creativity Be Stored? Yes, and It Should Be

For those of us who are not creative, it is difficult to imagine how creative people work.The explanation for the messy creative person and the uncreative brainstorming session can be found in research by Poornika Ananth and Sarah Harvey published in Administrative Science Quarterly. They had a big study of creative individuals in theatre and architecture, and…

walterstiers

2023-02-23

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens