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  • Our food system: Power and Profit 

    “Power and profit drive what we eat: here’s why the food system needs a revolution” Decades of corporate control have shaped diets, harmed farmers and strained the planet — transforming the system will take collective action. Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet Stuart Gillespie Canongate Books (2025) Stuart Gillespie’s book Food Fight offers a…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-30
    #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical
    #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, food, health, nutrition, wellness
  • Critical Thinking for Medicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts

    “Critical Thinking for 21st-CenturyMedicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts” Clinical Reasoning for 21st-Century Medicine: Optimal clinical reasoning will involve an appropriate balance betweenillness scripts and pathophysiological reasoning. In our view, medical education has historically overemphasized the former—to which learners are predisposed even without explicit teaching— and underemphasized the latter. The risks of this historical approach will become…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-29
    Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom
    #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens
  • Computational Framework for cognitive biology

    “Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition” Progress in understanding cognition requires a quantitative, theoretical framework, grounded in the other natural sciences and able to bridge between implementational, algorithmic and computational levels of explanation. This review article reviews recent results in neuroscience and cognitive biology that, when combined, provide key components…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-29
    #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science
    #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, philosophy
  • Brain-body physiology

    “Brain-body physiology: Local, reflex, and central communication” Behavior is tightly synchronized with bodily physiology. Internal needs from the body drive behavior selection, while optimal behavior performance requires a coordinated physiological response. Internal state is dynamically represented by the nervous system to influence mood and emotion, and body-brain signals also direct responses to external sensory cues,…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-11
    Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science
    #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health, Science, wellness
  • “Play should always be led by the child and what the child wants to do”

    “Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play” Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents. Over the past two decades, research has emerged showing that opportunities for risky play are crucial for healthy physical, mental and emotional development.…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-10
    Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical
    #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, children, education, family, mental-health, parenting
  • Beyond thinking fast and slow: clinical reasoning

    “Beyond thinking fast and slow: a Bayesian intuitionist model of clinical reasoning” Clinical reasoning is a quintessential aspect of medical training and practice, and is a topic that has been studied and written about extensively over the past few decades. However, the predominant conceptualisation of clinical reasoning has insofar been extrapolated from cognitive psychological theories…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-09
    #sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical
    #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health, technology
  • Friendship and loneliness

    “Why friendship and loneliness affect our health” Friendships play an especially important role in our lives, providing emotional and other sources of support as well as creating the communities on which our survival has depended. Friendship is underpinned both by core areas within the brain and by β-endorphins. Because β-endorphins have a number of direct…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-09
    Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Social-Technical
    #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, mental-health, relationships, writing
  • Divergent Perception: Framing Creative Cognition

    “Divergent Perception: Framing Creative Cognition Through the Lens of Sensory Flexibility” “Savoir regarder est un moyen d’inventer.”  Salvador Dali. Creativity is a cornerstone of human evolution and is typically defined as the multifaceted ability to produce novel and useful artifacts. Although much research has focused on divergent thinking, growing evidence underscores the importance of perceptual…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-09
    Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Science
    #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, consciousness
  • Towards embodied intelligence

    “Intelligent soft matter: towards embodied intelligence” Intelligent soft matter lies at the intersection of materials science, physics, and cognitive science, promising to change how we design and interact with materials. This transformative field aims to create materials with life-like capabilities, such as perception, learning, memory, and adaptive behavior. Unlike traditional materials, which typically perform static…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-09
    Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Science
    #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, technology
  • Updating MentalModels of Risk

    “Updating Mental Models of Risk” Disasters are no longer isolated events. This demands a fundamental change in how we think about and respond to complex risk. Wealth is often thought of as a source of protection—a form of risk mitigation. Yet the security that money buys can paradoxically amplify certain risks. “When complex systems break…

    walterstiers

    2025-09-09
    #Wicked, Complexity, Life Ideas, Social-Technical
    #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens
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