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Will it ever happen?

Evolution of Brains and Computers: The Roads Not Taken – Can machines ever achieve true intelligence? , is a perspective article in entropy by Ricard Solé and Luís F. Seoane, has a great discussion on intelligence. When computers started to become a dominant part of technology around the 1950s, fundamental questions about reliable designs and…

walterstiers

2022-05-17

#Wicked, Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked

Metacognition accompanying decision-making

Decision-making is usually accompanied by metacognition, through which a decision maker monitors uncertainty regarding a decision and may then consequently revise the decision. These metacognitive processes can occur prior to or in the absence of feedback. The neural mechanisms of metacognition remain controversial. A novel “decision–redecision” paradigm to investigate the neural metacognitive processes involved in…

walterstiers

2022-05-17

#Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

Modeling the Predictive Social Mind

The social mind is tailored to the problem of predicting the mental states and actions of other people. However, social cognition researchers have only scratched the surface of the predictive social mind. We discuss here a new framework for explaining how people organize social knowledge and use it for social prediction. Specifically, we propose a…

walterstiers

2022-05-17

Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#TheInformationLens

Enriched Environment helps decision

Inter-Individual Differences in Cognitive Tasks: Focusing on the Shaping of Decision-Making Strategies is a recent publication about the Mouse Gambling Task. It revealed about 30% of healthy mice displaying risk-averse choices while about 20-25% of mice make risk-prone choices. These strategies are accompanied by different brain network mobilization and individual levels of regional -prefrontal and…

walterstiers

2022-05-17

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

#DecisionIntelligence

Design, Agency and Pragmatic Imagination

The books “Pragmatic Imagination” and “Design Unbound” from Ann Pandleton-Jullian and JSB ( John Seely Brown) explore to a great detail the need for new creative “imagination” into a practical form. The reasoning builds on the ideas of entanglement, expressed in my previous entry. A great lecture from 2015 is availavle on the video-section of…

walterstiers

2022-05-17

#Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Enlightement or Entanglement?

Two great articles build on this idea of the need to get more attention to the connections and relations in between, compared to the specialised detailed view, or to have the multidisciplenary view of entanglement, compared to tradition we learned rom the enlightement. In the 2020 article “Wisdom of stakeholder crowds in complex social–ecological systems“,…

walterstiers

2022-05-04

#stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

#ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Digital Twins: Societies are not machines, & optimization is a too narrow approach

I already did mention the importance of VVUQ when considering operational digital twins. More elaborated is the work from teh ETH Zurich team (Dirk Helbing & Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo), Digital Twins: Potentials, Limitations, and Ethical Issues. Rather than aiming for perfect digital twins, a predictable future, and total control, one should use computer simulation technology…

walterstiers

2022-05-03

AI, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Science, Social-Technical, Sustainability

#DigitalTwin, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked

Collective Intelligence & information pooling or aggregation

The review article on “Information aggregation and collective intelligence beyond the wisdom of crowds” describes how collective decision-making is a robust behavioural feature of groups for humans and other gregarious animals. Pooling individual information is also fundamental for modern societies, in which digital technologies have exponentially increased the interdependence of individual group members. Cognitive and…

walterstiers

2022-05-03

#Wicked, Active Inference, AI, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

A radical realignment between grown and built environments

Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli architect and designer known for pioneering the field of Material Ecology. Formerly a tenured professor at MIT, founder and director of The Mediated Matter Group; she now runs her own lab, called Oxman, in Manhattan. She discussed her manifesto and accompanying film Nature x Humanity in a live interview. “How might we leverage design…

walterstiers

2022-04-28

Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

#Analogy, #Creativity, #DecisionIntelligence, #Entanglement, #TheInformationLens

Avoiding “Fake News” – also at old age – not as hard as one might think.

Ryan C. Moore & Jeffrey T. Hancock just published “A digital media literacy intervention for older adults improves resilience to fake news”. This article gives promising news on the awareness and actions one can to avoid fake news and misconceptions. The intervention was a 1-hour, self-directed series of interactive modules designed to teach concepts and…

walterstiers

2022-04-19

Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

#TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty