Category: Complexity

• Cultural Evolution of the Arts: arcade games

  “The cultural macroevolution of arcade video games: innovation, collaboration, and collapse” Arcade video games evolved in a constrained design space, following patterns of diversification, stabilisation, and collapse that mirror macroevolutionary processes. Despite their historical significance and detailed digital records, arcade games remain underexplored in cultural evolution research. Drawing on a dataset of 7,205 machines spanning…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-10

  Complexity, Information Technology, Innovation Games, Social-Technical

  #TheInformationLens, art, consciousness, philosophy

• End GDP mania

  “End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity” Last week’s United Nations General Assembly, held in New York City, generated no shortage of headlines. But one notable policy initiative from the world body was not discussed by world leaders when it should have been. UN secretary-general António Guterres has put together a high-level…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-04

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens, climate-change, economics, economy, environment, Sustainability

• A Relational View of Uncertainty

  “A Relational View of Uncertainty” There is significant confusion and debate in entrepreneurship and strategy research about the nature and locus of uncertainty. Does uncertainty reside internally in the agent or externally in the environment? This article introduces a relational view of uncertainty (RVU) to help reframe this issue. In this framework, uncertainty is understood…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-03

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, artificial-intelligence, philosophy, Science

• 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

• 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