Category: Biology of Information

• The coevolution of cognition and sociality

  “The coevolution of cognition and sociality“ Cognition serves to resolve uncertainty. Living in social groups is widely seen as a source of uncertainty driving cognitive evolution, but sociality can also mitigate sources of uncertainty, reducing the need for cognition.Moreover, social systems are not simply external selection pressures but rather arise from the decisions individuals make…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-26

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #ProblemSolvingMind, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #emergence, psychology, philosophy, AI

• The Universe Learning Itself

  “The Universe Learning Itself: On the Evolution of Dynamics from theBig Bang to Machine Intelligence” We develop a unified, dynamical-systems narrative of the universe that traces a continuous chain of structure formation from the Big Bang to contemporary human societies and their artificial learning systems. Rather than treating cosmology, astrophysics, geophysics, biology, cognition, and machine…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-26

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, consciousness, philosophy, Science, spirituality

• Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis

  “Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis”. For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human-induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-26

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, biology, evolution, health, philosophy, Science

• Decoding the architecture of living systems

  “Decoding the architecture of living systems“, by Manlio De Domenico The possibility that evolutionary forces — together with a few fundamental factors such as thermodynamic constraints, specific computational features enabling information processing, and ecological processes — might constrain the logic of living systems is tantalizing. However, it is often overlooked that any practical implementation of…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-22

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Entanglement, #TheInformationLens

• Complex Systems Frameworks Collection

  Complex Systems Frameworks Collection The Complex Systems Frameworks Collection is a gerat resource for navigating an increasingly complex world. Over time, people have developed many excellent frameworks, analogies and models for understanding complexity. This collection brings them together in an illustrated collection to help you: Because complex isn’t the same as complicated. Each framework has its…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-19

  #Cynefin, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Keep the hands in mind

  Keep the hands in mind: A meta-analysis of correlations between fine motor skills and reading, writing, mathematics, and cognitive development in children and adolescents” Evidence suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) relate to academic and cognitive development; however, findings are unclear, strewn across multiple disciplines, and lack adequate synthesis. We conducted the first comprehensive meta-analysis…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-11

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, education, health, learning, mental-health, teaching

• Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development

  “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” Highlights: The human brain undergoes a protracted course of development that provides prolonged opportunities to be sculpted by experience. Yet, persistent definitional and measurement challenges have complicated efforts to understand how experience interacts with neuroplasticity during human development. Here, we synthesize previously siloed perspectives to propose an…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-09

  Active Inference, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, brain, health, mental-health, wellness

• The ‘made-up mind’.

  “The ‘made-up mind’. Deriving new hypotheses on delusions from general psychological models of belief maintenance” Highlights Contemporary definitions of delusions highlight their resistance to conflicting evidence as the core feature, but there has been little progress in understanding why even explicit confrontation with contradicting evidence seldom leads to belief revision. This review aims to generate…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-08

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, AI, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, Science

• Stubborn Goals: the adaptive value

  “The adaptive value of stubborn goals” Humans exhibit a striking tendency to persist with chosen goals. This strong attachment to goals can often appear irrational – a perspective captured by terms such as perseverance or sunk-cost biases. In this review, we explore how goal commitment could stem from several adaptive mechanisms, including those that optimise…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-03

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health, psychology, technology

• Harmony in the brain

  “Harmony in the brain: A narrative review on the shared neural substrates of emotion regulation and creativity” The contribution of creativity in overall well-being through regulating emotions has sparkled research interest in employing artistic interventions recently for the improvement of mental health. Although the behavioural links between emotion regulation and creativity have been established, the neural networks reflecting…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-27

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, health, meditation, mental-health, mindfulness