Category: Decision Intelligence

• Digital Twins: Societies are not machines, & optimization is a too narrow approach

  I already did mention the importance of VVUQ when considering operational digital twins. More elaborated is the work from teh ETH Zurich team (Dirk Helbing & Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo), Digital Twins: Potentials, Limitations, and Ethical Issues. Rather than aiming for perfect digital twins, a predictable future, and total control, one should use computer simulation technology…

  walterstiers

  2022-05-03

  AI, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Science, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DigitalTwin, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked

• Collective Intelligence & information pooling or aggregation

  The review article on “Information aggregation and collective intelligence beyond the wisdom of crowds” describes how collective decision-making is a robust behavioural feature of groups for humans and other gregarious animals. Pooling individual information is also fundamental for modern societies, in which digital technologies have exponentially increased the interdependence of individual group members. Cognitive and…

  walterstiers

  2022-05-03

  #Wicked, Active Inference, AI, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• 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

• Avoiding “Fake News” – also at old age – not as hard as one might think.

  Ryan C. Moore & Jeffrey T. Hancock just published “A digital media literacy intervention for older adults improves resilience to fake news”. This article gives promising news on the awareness and actions one can to avoid fake news and misconceptions. The intervention was a 1-hour, self-directed series of interactive modules designed to teach concepts and…

  walterstiers

  2022-04-19

  Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

• Machine Learning Article deserves to have the best ‘Plain Language Summary’

  I share the opinion that “all plain language summaries should aspire to the glorious heights of this piece of literary art.”I also like the conclusion presented 🙂

  walterstiers

  2022-02-09

  Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence

  #TheInformationLens

• 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

• Complex Data and Models lead to Ascendency Analysis

  When making decisions, data might not be overlooked, nor the methodology to collect and interprete them. Especially in complex matteras as sustainability and circular economy, data, the collection and interpretation is key in helping our understanding and guiding our decisions. The EU JRC just published a great overview report on “Domestic Footprint of the EU…

  walterstiers

  2022-01-24

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Science, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #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