Category: Life Ideas

• Player Played – new forms of fascism

  “The Player and the Played – From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism” – Open Access A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment. In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on…

  walterstiers

  2026-09-22

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, fascism, history, politics

• Cognitive maps – a medium for thought

  “Cognitive maps as a medium for thought“ Cognitive maps and propositional representations (the ‘language of thought’) are different from each other but share some key characteristics, such as compositionality. To be useful for thinking, cognitive maps must interface with language of thought-like representations. This may involve the same operations that are used to convert cognitive…

  walterstiers

  2026-09-11

  #sense-making, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Becoming Aware Through Internal Exploration

  “Becoming Aware Through Internal Exploration: Understanding Psychotherapy on Conceptual and Neurobiological Levels” Becoming aware of previously unrecognized aspects of one’s psychological and behavioral challenges is one of the central mechanisms of positive psychotherapeutic change. Yet the specific neurocognitive processes that underlie new realizations remain poorly understood. What must occur in one’s mind and brain for…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-31

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Structure Inference Improves From Childhood to Adulthood

  “Structure Inference in Complex Environments Improves From Childhood to Adulthood” also available on website of Aaron M. Bornstein. Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, construct causal models from those regularities, and use those models…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-31

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Mensen zijn complex

  “Mensen zijn complex” Een inleiding in de theorie van complexe dynamische systemen voor de psychologische en pedagogische praktijk; Paul van Geert Boek als download aangeboden door University of Groningen Press en oapen De theorie van complexe dynamische systemen biedt een veelzijdig werkmodel voor praktijkpsychologen en -pedagogen. Ze geeft een denk- en inspiratiekader voor lastige problemen…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-18

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Interpersonal Neural Synchrony

  “A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony” Highlights Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) emerges as early as four months of age. INS supports social learning, language acquisition, and attachment in development. Early INS is constrained to low-frequency rhythms, evolving with brain maturation. INS fosters mutual predictability and co-regulation in caregiver-child interactions. INS serves as both a…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-18

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health

• In de wolk of op de grond? – Is AI dan toch intelligent?

  Ik was aangenaam verrast met de volgende uitspraak en de verduidelijking die ze me aanreikte: “Man with head in the clouds and feet on the ground, he very big man.”Niet echt een “quote” of gezegde, maar toch aangehaald om te verwijzen naar de groten der aarde. “Einstein was a giant. His head was in the…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-09

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, identiteit, nederlands

• Holistic understanding of uncertainty

  “Holistic understanding of uncertainty for collaborative andproactive global change decision making” Global change is accelerating and pushing the planet’s ecosystems beyond the range of historical observations, creating increasing uncertainty in future system conditions. Despite general agreement that proactive environmental action is warranted, environmental decision conversations often end by identifying additional data needed to reduce uncertainty…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-07

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• How capital becomes a death cult.

  How capital becomes a death cult.Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.It’s the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-05

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Bullshitting – bullibility

  “Bullshit can be harmful to your health: Bullibility as a precursor to poor decision–making” “Bullfighting in the business arena: Evidence-based strategies for detecting and disposing of organizational bullshit” “When fools have greater influence than liars: testing the insidiousbullshit hypothesis with the illusory truth effect” Bullshitting is characterized by sharing information with little to no regard…

  walterstiers

  2026-07-13

  #sense-making, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• What Lives?

  “What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition ofLife” The question of “what is life?” has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of disciplinary perspectives brought to bear on the question.Despite significant progress in our understanding of…

  walterstiers

  2026-07-13

  #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens

• To explore or exploit: Individual differences in preschool decision making

  “To explore or exploit: Individual differences in preschool decision making” Adapting to novel situations requires balancing exploration versus exploitation. Examining patterns of explore/exploit in decision making provides a more ecologically valid measure of performance. Research indicates individual and developmental differences in explore/exploit strategies. Differences in strategy use have implications for social adjustment and development disorders.…

  walterstiers

  2026-06-10

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Reframing neuroergonomics

  “Reframing neuroergonomics in an evolutionary and active inference context” Everyday situations, such as feeling nauseous in virtual-reality environments or getting dizzy when reading as a car passenger, reveal how easily our senses can become confused when modern technology disrupts the innate relationship between the physical environment and human sensory systems. Such disruptions expose the vulnerability…

  walterstiers

  2026-06-10

  #Sensemaking, Active Inference, Complexity, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Ik zie wat ik geloof

  Ik zie wat ik geloof, het essay dat Roxane van Iperen schreef ter gelegenheid van de Maand van de Filosofie, is behoorlijk alarmistisch van toon. Terecht ‘We leven in een tijd waarin de werkelijkheid niet langer is gebaseerd op een gedeelde ervaring, maar een product is dat per individu op maat wordt gemaakt. Wie controle heeft…

  walterstiers

  2026-06-06

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, identiteit, nederlands, recensie

• Origins and Evolution of Imagination

  “Origins and Evolution of Imagination, From Australopithecus to Modern-Day Deep Learning” Where does imagination come from? How did it originate, and which organisms are capable of imagination? What deeper connections does imagination share with consciousness, survival, and the very essence of life? Across both scientific literature and public discourse, imagination is invoked to describe a…

  walterstiers

  2026-05-12

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, AI, consciousness, philosophy, Science

• The body does not keep the score

  “The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability” For nearly a decade, the idea that “the body keeps the score” has shaped public and clinical understanding of trauma. It is an enticing metaphor—implying that experience is literally inscribed in flesh, that the body bears the scars of what…

  walterstiers

  2026-04-30

  #sense-making, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health, Science

• From reductionism to realism

  “From reductionism to realism: holistic mathematical modelling for complex biological systems” At its core, the physics paradigm adopts a reductionist approach, aiming to understand fundamental phenomena by decomposing them into simpler, elementary processes. While this strategy has been tremendously successful in physics, it has often fallen short in addressing fundamental questions in the biological sciences.…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-24

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens

• From Noise to Music:: Context

  “From Noise to Music: Reframing the Role of Context in Clinical Reasoning” Traditional perspectives on clinical reasoning (CR) have framed it as a content-specific process in which differences in the information stored in a clinician’s mind account for differences in CR performance. The finding that individual clinicians perform differently on cases with the same clinical content…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-21

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, health, technology

• Affective State as a central component to environmental changes

  “Considering affective state as a central component of the response of animals to environmental changes” Current environmental changes are often considered as negatively impacting the affective state of animals. Yet, the interplay betweenenvironmental conditions and affective state should rather be viewed as a reciprocal and dynamic relationship, as variation in affective state likely determines how…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-17

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, health, Science

• Cultural evolutionary behavioural science inpublic policy

  “Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy” Interventions are to the social sciences what inventions are to the physical sciences – an application of science as technology. Behavioural science has emerged as a powerful toolkit for developing public policy interventions for changing behaviour. However, the translation from principles to practice is often moderated by contextual…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-17

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, Science

• Music as a scientific metaphor for mind and brain

  “Music as a scientific metaphor for mind and brain” Metaphors have long played multiple roles in conceptualizing the mind and brain, guiding the development and refinement of theoretical models and empirical questions. Early analogies (comparing the brain to hydraulic systems, telephone exchanges, factories, or libraries) offered shortcuts to understanding aspects of cognition, memory, and brain…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-17

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• A generic self-learning emotional framework for machines

  “A generic self-learning emotional framework for machines” In nature, intelligent living beings have developed emotions to modulate their behavior as a fundamental evolutionary advantage. However, researchers seeking to endow machines with this advantage lack a clear theory from cognitive neuroscience describing emotional elicitation from first principles, namely, from raw observations to specific affects. As a…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-13

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, health, mental-health

• Your brain on nature

  “Your brain on nature: A scoping review of the neuroscience of nature exposure” Increased alpha/theta oscillations and reduced amygdala activity consistently observed. Structural and functional brain changes associated with greenspace and immersive VR. A conceptual model integrates sensory, contextual, and individual moderating factors. The relationship between natural environments and human cognition has gathered increasing attention…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-10

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health

• what felt like a communication problem is a thinking problem

  “Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind” Our brains when we stop writing Writing is, for many, a way of thinking. Using chatbots to bypass the struggle to articulate thoughts might erode a scientist’s capacity for creativity and critical thinking, writes science-communication educator and neuroscientist Tim Requarth. The evidence either way is, so far,…

  walterstiers

  2026-02-28

  #Sensemaking, AI, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens