Category: Creative Thinking

• Characteristics, potentials, and challenges of transdisciplinary research

  Resolving the grand challenges and wicked problems of the Anthropocene will require skillfully combining a broad range of knowledge and understandings—both scientific and non-scientific—of Earth systems and human societies. One approach to this is transdisciplinary research, which has gained considerable interest over the last few decades, resulting in an extensive body of literature about transdisciplinarity.…

  walterstiers

  2022-02-04

  #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked

• Bullshit Jobs – Will it change after the pandemics?

  I finished reading the great work of David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs, and especially liked the list of five types of entirely pointless jobs: I does not take a lot of intellectual power to connect all five to the pure essence of what I call “the information lens“, blocking the insight from the reality, or the…

  walterstiers

  2022-01-19

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• “active learning conditions” stimulate common processes that become part of the representations

  There is an emerging consensus on the virtues of active learning methods for improving student performance. Such learning methods can be any instruction or technique that requires students to actively engage in the learning process, as compared to more traditional, passive ways of learning.One form of active learning is retrieval practice (RP), where the activity…

  walterstiers

  2022-01-06

  Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Break the wall of disciplines: Internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate

  The growing need to respond the quest for sustainability, raises the importance of good decision making. A great article just published, relates good sustainable decisioning to internal and external transformations needed. The authors propose an integrated model of change as an agenda and roadmap for future research, policy and practice. Some intersting text snippets: From…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-26

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Sustainability, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

• What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?

  Melanie Mitchell has a great article, she just announced at Complexity Digest: Language models can generate uncannily humanlike prose (and poetry!) and seemingly perform sophisticated linguistic reasoning. How can we test if these machines actually understand what they’re doing? Read the full article at: www.quantamagazine.orghttps://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-understand-20211216/# Understanding language requires understanding the world, and a machine exposed only…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-17

  AI, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology

  #HumanAI

• Wetenschap of overtuiging?Democratie en kapitalisme – wat is er nu gaande

  Prof Koen Schoors gebruikt in zijn lezing bij de Universiteit Vlaanderen, “Kan een democratie bestaan zonder kapitalisme?“ (ook beschikbaar als podcast en in een krantenartikel) een aantal veronderstellingen die hij niet verduidelijkt. Dit is jammer, want meer uitleg had de toehoorder doen begrijpen dat de onderbouw ontbreekt. Ondertussen is in de wetenschap voldoende inzicht om…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-13

  #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• The Power Of Us – Group Decisions @ “Behavior Change For Good”

  Jay Van Bavel, and Dominic Packer have written a new book titled, The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony. It examines how group affiliations influence behavior and inspire both personal and social change. During the BEHAVIOR CHANGE FOR GOOD INITIATIVE interview, Van Bavel talks about why he and…

  walterstiers

  2021-11-24

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Use complexity as a weapon … (but you might fail)

  From Tunnel Vision to Lateral Vision – In the Media & Elsewhere with Gillian Tett, a very short vido speech shared by the Sante Fe Institute, has a very nice reflection on why society accepts crisises like the financial-2008 Use complexity as a weapon The closing statement of the short fragment tells it all: “If…

  walterstiers

  2021-11-09

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical

• Designing for Human-AI interaction is hard. (So steal like an artist :-)

  Following is and interesting article/blog , and just “stolen like an artist” from https://www.simonoregan.com/short-thoughts/the-design-difficulties-of-human-ai-interaction Designing for Human-AI interaction is hard. Here Yang et al. catalog where designers run into problems when applying the traditional 4Ds process to designing AI systems. These difficulties can be broadly attributed to two sources: This uncertainty and complexity combination then…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-29

  AI, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Information Technology

  #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Bernard Haitink – The orchestral master in “magic of true leadership”

  Next to information sciences, I’ve also a passion for orchestral music.As such, I feel sad about the end of a living legend. Luckily, the recordings will remain, and I had the pleasure to attend (at the BPO concert hall) his last performance of Bruckner 7 with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductors have the great power of…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-22

  Creative Thinking, Life Ideas

  #BernardHaitink