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Break the wall of disciplines: Internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate

The growing need to respond the quest for sustainability, raises the importance of good decision making. A great article just published, relates good sustainable decisioning to internal and external transformations needed. The authors propose an integrated model of change as an agenda and roadmap for future research, policy and practice. Some intersting text snippets: From…

walterstiers

2021-12-26

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Sustainability, Uncategorized

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?

Melanie Mitchell has a great article, she just announced at Complexity Digest: Language models can generate uncannily humanlike prose (and poetry!) and seemingly perform sophisticated linguistic reasoning. How can we test if these machines actually understand what they’re doing? Read the full article at: www.quantamagazine.orghttps://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-understand-20211216/# Understanding language requires understanding the world, and a machine exposed only…

walterstiers

2021-12-17

AI, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology

#HumanAI

Refocus your “Information Lens” everytime again…

A great comment appeared today on the site of Nature:Decision makers need constantly updated evidence synthesis “Science does not stand still; neither should its synthesis and translation into action.” Startin with a focus on COVID-19, it clearly states the wider importance: Evidence synthesis .. helps to tackle questions in education, economics, environment, criminal justice, global…

walterstiers

2021-12-15

Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

Binary “Space-Time decisions” accumulate

There was this great article in PNAS, recently: The geometry of decision-making in individuals and collectives. Luis M. Rocha posted a perfect summary on twitter: In biology, complex dynamics so often lead to binary (thresholded/critical) decision: “we predict that the brain repeatedly breaks multichoice decisions into a series of binary decisions in space–time”.

walterstiers

2021-12-15

Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind

“it’s a walk in the park”

“It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery” The phrases “It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery” are commonly and interchangeably used for tasks or concepts that are easy Using such phrases suggests that both specialties are put on a pedestal of being difficult or requiring exceptional cognitive abilities Whether they are…

walterstiers

2021-12-14

Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #Rocketscience

Wetenschap of overtuiging?Democratie en kapitalisme – wat is er nu gaande

Prof Koen Schoors gebruikt in zijn lezing bij de Universiteit Vlaanderen, “Kan een democratie bestaan zonder kapitalisme?“ (ook beschikbaar als podcast en in een krantenartikel) een aantal veronderstellingen die hij niet verduidelijkt. Dit is jammer, want meer uitleg had de toehoorder doen begrijpen dat de onderbouw ontbreekt. Ondertussen is in de wetenschap voldoende inzicht om…

walterstiers

2021-12-13

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

#DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Individual differences in information-seeking

Vast amounts of personalized information are now available to individuals. A vital research challenge is to establish how people decide what information they wish to obtain. People’s decisions about whether to seek or avoid information are related to an integration of the – instrumental value, – hedonic value and – cognitive value of information. Individual…

walterstiers

2021-12-03

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

#DecisionIntelligence

The Power Of Us – Group Decisions @ “Behavior Change For Good”

Jay Van Bavel, and Dominic Packer have written a new book titled, The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony. It examines how group affiliations influence behavior and inspire both personal and social change. During the BEHAVIOR CHANGE FOR GOOD INITIATIVE interview, Van Bavel talks about why he and…

walterstiers

2021-11-24

Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Knowledge Defies Entropy

The SantaFe Institue SFIPress has the great theme of Knowledge defies entropy. Just released is the publication The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Most papers in the first (of three) part were available as on-line posts in the “Transmission series“, dedicated to the reflections and research based on the COVID-19 pandemic. Also…

walterstiers

2021-11-09

Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Social-Technical

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

Use complexity as a weapon … (but you might fail)

From Tunnel Vision to Lateral Vision – In the Media & Elsewhere with Gillian Tett, a very short vido speech shared by the Sante Fe Institute, has a very nice reflection on why society accepts crisises like the financial-2008 Use complexity as a weapon The closing statement of the short fragment tells it all: “If…

walterstiers

2021-11-09

Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical