Category: Creative Thinking

• A radical realignment between grown and built environments

  Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli architect and designer known for pioneering the field of Material Ecology. Formerly a tenured professor at MIT, founder and director of The Mediated Matter Group; she now runs her own lab, called Oxman, in Manhattan. She discussed her manifesto and accompanying film Nature x Humanity in a live interview. “How might we leverage design…

  walterstiers

  2022-04-28

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #Analogy, #Creativity, #DecisionIntelligence, #Entanglement, #TheInformationLens

• Your spatial navigation ability links with the entropy of your city street networks

  I already mentioned the importance of space-time decisions, Individual differences in information seeking, the importance of anology (for AI), The importance of spatial thinking and the Active Inference principle (the brain is an “inference engine” that seeks to minimize “prediction error.”) It all comes togethers in a great article in Nature: “Entropy of city street…

  walterstiers

  2022-03-31

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• French Horn taught me everything I needed to Know – Arthur Brooks

  ‘From Strength to Strength:’ Follow this link, fill out the CAPTCHA and … Arthur Brooks discusses his new book. He discusses about a nice set of ideas on building a happy and interesting life. His book, From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life  is a practical…

  walterstiers

  2022-03-24

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Wicked

• Why Can the Brain (And Not a Computer) Make Sense of the Liar Paradox?

  Ordinary computing machines prohibit self-reference because it leads to logical inconsistencies and undecidability. In contrast, the human mind can understand self-referential statements without necessitating physically impossible brain states. Why can the brain make sense of self-reference? This paper addresses this question by defining the Strange Loop Model, which features causal feedback between two brain modules,…

  walterstiers

  2022-02-09

  AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking

  Quotes from some a recent article, presenting intersting insights on semantic memory and creative thinking. “Education is central to the acquisition of knowledge, such as when children learn new concepts. It is unknown, however, whether educational differences impact not only what concepts children learn, but how those concepts come to be represented in semantic memory—a…

  walterstiers

  2022-02-06

  Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind

• 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