Category: Decision Intelligence

• 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

•  “Nocebo” calls for vaccination side effects.

  Most of the side effects that people experience after a COVID-19 vaccination can be blamed on the ‘nocebo’ effect. The nocebo effect is like the evil twin of the placebo effect — for example, it heightens pain if a person anticipates that something will hurt. Researchers reviewed 12 randomized clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines and…

  walterstiers

  2022-01-19

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

• Have farmers had enough of experts?

  A great review on one of the most complex issues in sustainable soil management. Farmers placed most trust in other farmers to learn about new soil practices and were less trusting of traditional ‘experts’, particularly agricultural researchers from academic and government institutions, who they believed were not empathetic towards farmers’ needs. In addition to a perceived…

  walterstiers

  2022-01-14

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #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

• 9 out of 10 fail, but ACM and AIT might help… recalibrating/updating stress responsivity patterns

  Future-Proofing Startups: Stress Management Principles Based on Adaptive Calibration Model and Active Inference Theory Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM) and Active Inference Theory (AIT) are related to future-proofing startups. – ACM encompasses the allocation of energy by the stress response system to alternative options for action, depending upon individuals’ life histories and changing external contexts. –…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-29

  Active Inference, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked

• Refocus your “Information Lens” everytime again…

  A great comment appeared today on the site of Nature:Decision makers need constantly updated evidence synthesis “Science does not stand still; neither should its synthesis and translation into action.” Startin with a focus on COVID-19, it clearly states the wider importance: Evidence synthesis .. helps to tackle questions in education, economics, environment, criminal justice, global…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-15

  Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Binary “Space-Time decisions” accumulate

  There was this great article in PNAS, recently: The geometry of decision-making in individuals and collectives. Luis M. Rocha posted a perfect summary on twitter: In biology, complex dynamics so often lead to binary (thresholded/critical) decision: “we predict that the brain repeatedly breaks multichoice decisions into a series of binary decisions in space–time”.

  walterstiers

  2021-12-15

  Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind

• “it’s a walk in the park”

  “It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery” The phrases “It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery” are commonly and interchangeably used for tasks or concepts that are easy Using such phrases suggests that both specialties are put on a pedestal of being difficult or requiring exceptional cognitive abilities Whether they are…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-14

  Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #Rocketscience