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“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

Neuroplasticity enables bio‑cultural feedback

The scientific reports article “Neuroplasticity enables bio‑cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone‑tool making” elaborates on the idea described in articles like The comparative neuroscience and neuroarchaeological evidence indicate that functional systems supporting stone tool making have undergone substantial change over human evolution, and that these changes may be relevant to a much wider range of distinctively…

walterstiers

2023-02-22

#Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#Analogy, #downcausation, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

The evolution of universal cooperation

Humans work together in groups to tackle shared problems and contribute to local club goods that benefit other group members. Whereas benefits from club goods remain group bound, groups are often nested in overarching collectives that face shared problems like pandemics or climate change. Such challenges require individuals to cooperate across group boundaries, raising the…

walterstiers

2023-02-22

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

David Krakauer Lecture on What is Complexity?

David Krakauer • What is Complexity? is a great and enlightening talk sectioning the concept of complexity and exploring complexity epistemology and emergence. (Also to be found on Sante Fe Institute website: The Complexity Explorer)

walterstiers

2023-02-21

#Wicked, Complexity, Science

#emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

Brain-Behavior relationships

“Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions” discusses how scientific communities tacitly agree on assumptions about what exists (called ontological commitments), what questions to ask, and what methods to use. All assumptions are firmly rooted in a philosophy of science that need not be acknowledged or discussed but is practiced nonetheless. In…

walterstiers

2023-02-21

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

The Art of Abduction

Abductive reasoning typically begins with an incomplete set of observations and proceeds to the likeliest possible explanation for the set. Abductive reasoning yields the kind of daily decision-making that does its best with the information at hand, which often is incomplete. A medical diagnosis is an application of abductive reasoning: given this set of symptoms,…

walterstiers

2023-02-21

#Sensemaking, Active Inference, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens