Category: Creative Thinking

• Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking

  “Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking” Convergent thinking, the ability to find a single optimal solution to a well-defined problem, is considered a core component of creativity, and is often assumed to rely on controlled, deliberative processes. We tested this assumption using the Compound Remote Associates (CRA) test, where participants have to…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-09

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Switching, fast and slow

  “Switching, fast and slow: Deciphering the dynamics of memory search, its brain connectivity patterns, and its role in creativity “ Creative ideas emerge from the process of searching and combining concepts in memory, involving both associative and controlled mechanisms. How these processes unfold during memory search and relate to creativity remains unclear. We explored the neurocognitive…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-09

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Science, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• A (Re)Solution

  I’d like to share the New Year Resolution of Tom Gauld It is a Re(al)Solution 😉

  walterstiers

  2026-01-01

  #Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson

  “Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson” Around the world in 48 penguin puzzles! Can you spot the penguin in every game this year? For five years now, Briefing readers have eagerly awaited Fridays for a chance to put their penguin-hunting skills to the test. Each week, Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin, travels to scientifically interesting (and…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-01

  Science, Innovation Games, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, #Sensemaking

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• 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

• Something Disturbing Happens … With ChatGPT

  “Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT” (Text and image are from the original article) ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are replacing the search engine. Instead of letting you suffer the laborious task of looking up sources of information, these powerful large language models will simply concoct an answer for you, with the…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-16

  #Sensemaking, AI, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, openai, technology

• Collective predictive coding

  “Collective predictive coding as model of science: formalizing scientific activities towards generative science” This article proposes a new conceptual framework called collective predictive coding as a model of science (CPC‑MS) to formalize and understand scientific activities. Building on the idea of CPC originally developed to explain symbol emergence, CPC‑MS models science as a decentralized Bayesian…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-08

  #sense-making, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, Science

• 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

• Blocking of associative learning by explicit descriptions

  “Blocking of associative learning by explicit descriptions” People given written descriptions often learn and decide differently from those learning from experience, even in formally identical tasks. This paper presents two experiments detailing how telling participants about the value of one stimulus impacts a keystone learning effect – blocking. The paper investigates if descriptions can be…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-27

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• October 7, 2025

  “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves” William Shakespeare Dear Friends and Fellow Humans, I turn 70 today. For 7 decades I’ve had the privilege of living out my childhood dream, which was simply to UNDERSTAND. After spending more than half a century meeting people from all over the world…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-07

  #Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens