Category: Creative Thinking

• “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

• 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

• Horizon Scanning

  EU policy lab released a set of “signal cards“. More information available at “In the mood for the future with Horizon Scanning Cards“ The Signal Cards come out of the ESPAS Horizon Scanning activity, in which we present and analyse emerging trends, technologies or generally signs of new which we identified through the horizon scanning…

  walterstiers

  2025-08-16

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, politics, Sustainability, technology

• Rhythmic Footstep (& Sound) Interactions on Creativity

  “The Effects of Rhythmic Footstep and Sound Interactions on Creativity: A Design and Evaluation Study“ Existing research has explored how walking can stimulate creativity through the rhythm of footsteps. Innovators (e.g., Steve Jobs and Murakami Haruki)have mentioned that walking can stimulate their creativity when integrated with attention focus and footstep awareness Researchers have also studied…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-15

  Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Walking

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Power of the Invisible

  “The Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality” from Sander Bais There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. Enrico Fermi Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-03

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, philosophy, physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-physics, Science

• Greatness Cannot Be Planned

  Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated — and nearly everything in-between — our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned—The Myth of…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-02

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, history, philosophy, Science, spirituality

• AI only sees the data trail, not the human story

  Cassie Kozyrkov just shared a great story: “AI only sees the data trail, not the human story“ AI only sees the past, not the future.AI only sees the pattern, not the purpose.AI only sees the data trail, not the human story.AI only sees compliance, not commitment.AI only sees keyword matches, not understanding.AI only sees what…

  walterstiers

  2025-02-19

  #Sensemaking, AI, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Penguin Update 12/2024

  The Leif Penguinson article I wrote a while ago refers to an article in Nature, which got updated 12/2023 and also 12/2024. Of course, you always can have your regular “Can you spot the penguin?” when you follow the Nature Briefings

  walterstiers

  2024-12-27

  #Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Innovation Games, Life Ideas

  #TheInformationLens

• Contextualizing predictive minds

  “Contextualizing predictive minds” discusses how the structure of human memory seems to be optimized for efficient prediction, planning, and behavior. We propose that these capacities rely on a tripartite structure of memory that includes concepts, events, and contexts—three layers that constitute the mental world model. We suggest that the mechanism that critically increases adaptivity and…

  walterstiers

  2024-12-17

  #sense-making, Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Social-Technical

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, psychology

• Beyond the AHA!

  “Going beyond the AHA! moment: insight discovery for transdisciplinary research and learning“ The concept of ‘insight discovery’ is developed as a key competence for transdisciplinary research and learning in this paper. To address complex societal and environmental problems facing the world today, a particular expertise that can identify new connections between diverse knowledge fields is…

  walterstiers

  2024-11-25

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, education, psychology