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How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future – Who is next ?

A stunning speech from Scott Galloway on TED, tackling the issues of western (US) society. However, the talk is about US, the issues are not just limited to the US, and can easily be found back in the modern western world. As such, this talk might be inspiring. In a scorching talk, marketing professor and…

walterstiers

2024-05-07

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Life Ideas, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load – do not stress

Chronic psychosocial stress increases disease risk and mortality, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear. This article in Psychoneuroendocrinology outlines an energy-based model for the transduction of chronic stress into disease over time. The energetic model of allostatic load (EMAL) emphasizes the energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load, where the “load” is the additional…

walterstiers

2024-05-07

Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, healing, health, wellness

Fast walkers have higher IQ and larger brains than slow walkers.

These findings are from a 5-decade cohort study of 904 participants in New Zealand published in @JAMANetworkOpen which tested the hypothesis that slow gait speed reflects accelerated biological aging at midlife. Slow gait was associated with multiple indices of compromised structural brain integrity, including smaller total brain volume, global cortical thinning, and reduced total surface…

walterstiers

2024-05-01

#Wicked, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Science, Uncategorized

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, brain, fitness, gait, health

Andy Clark “How the brain shapes reality”

Philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark challenges our conventional understanding of the mind’s interaction with the world. A great and entertaining lecture. I like the reflection with the reference to the weather forecast and how the forecast impacts “reality” perception. At the very least, understanding all those prediction-driven, precision-inflected, looping influences should bring us a…

walterstiers

2024-04-29

#sense-making, Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

Collective behavior from surprise minimization

This paper introduces a model of collective behavior, proposing that individual members within a group, such as a school of fish or a flock of birds, act to minimize surprise. This active inference approach naturally generates well-known collective phenomena such as cohesion and directed movement without explicit behavioral rules. This model reveals intricate relationships between…

walterstiers

2024-04-23

#Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Social-Technical

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

Laughter – a signal

Laughter may be the tool that nature gave to mankind to help it survive while traveling along the evolutionary path, claims Carlo V. Bellieni in “Laughter: A signal of ceased alarm toward a perceived incongruity between life and stiffness“ This feature of human behavior that precedes language development (infants as young as three months old are…

walterstiers

2024-04-23

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

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, health, humor, laughter

Why the simplest explanation isn’t always the best

Eva L. Dyer and Konrad Kording discuss in a commentary article “Why the simplest explanation isn’t always the best” an essential learning related to the article Phantom oscillations in principal component analysis (also available on BioRXiv) Dimensionality reduction simplifies high-dimensional data into a small number of representative patterns. One dimensionality reduction method, principal component analysis (PCA), often selects oscillatory…

walterstiers

2024-04-18

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

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, data-science, machine-learning, unsupervised-learning

Your Name Matters (this is not a joke)

Best student paper award at the 2023 ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO’23) was “30 Million Canvas Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-design Induced Surname Initial Disparity in Grading” authored by Jiaxin Pei, Zhihan Wang, and Jun Li. The widespread adoption of learning management systems in educational institutions has…

walterstiers

2024-04-18

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Information Technology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, assessment, education

Intelligence: Evolution, Brains and AI – but #6?

I just finished the marvellous book from Max Bennett: “A Brief History of Intelligence“. As mentioned by the praise: “If you are interested in understanding brains or in building human-like general AI, you should read this book.” Dileep George, DeepMind, Co-Founder of Vicarious AI In the book, a wonderful story is given from the evolution…

walterstiers

2024-04-11

#sense-making, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical, Sustainability, Uncategorized

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

42 and 5

Today, 42 years ago, we had the great pleasure of discovering the reality of 5-fold crystals. On the morning of 8 April 1982, an image counter to the laws of nature appeared in Dan Shechtman’s electron microscope. In all solid matter, atoms were believed to be packed inside crystals in symmetrical patterns that were repeated…

walterstiers

2024-04-08

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked