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  • 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

  • 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…

    walterstiers

    2023-03-28
    #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical
    #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

  • 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
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