Category: Life Ideas

• Beyond thinking fast and slow: clinical reasoning

  “Beyond thinking fast and slow: a Bayesian intuitionist model of clinical reasoning” Clinical reasoning is a quintessential aspect of medical training and practice, and is a topic that has been studied and written about extensively over the past few decades. However, the predominant conceptualisation of clinical reasoning has insofar been extrapolated from cognitive psychological theories…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-09

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

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

• Friendship and loneliness

  “Why friendship and loneliness affect our health” Friendships play an especially important role in our lives, providing emotional and other sources of support as well as creating the communities on which our survival has depended. Friendship is underpinned both by core areas within the brain and by β-endorphins. Because β-endorphins have a number of direct…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-09

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, mental-health, relationships, writing

• Updating MentalModels of Risk

  “Updating Mental Models of Risk” Disasters are no longer isolated events. This demands a fundamental change in how we think about and respond to complex risk. Wealth is often thought of as a source of protection—a form of risk mitigation. Yet the security that money buys can paradoxically amplify certain risks. “When complex systems break…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-09

  #Wicked, Complexity, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• A Model of Creative Thinking

  “Adaptive Decision-Making “Fast” and “Slow”: A Model of Creative Thinking” The late Daniel Kahneman introduced the concept of fast and slow thinking, representing two distinct cognitive systems involved in decision-making (DM). Fast thinking (System 1) operates intuitively and spontaneously. In contrast, slow thinking (System 2) is characterized by deliberation and analytical reasoning. Following Kahneman’s view, called the…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-04

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, psychology

• Plasticity: A network theory

  “Plasticity in mental health: A network theory“ Plasticity is the ability to modify brain and behavior, ultimately promoting an amplification of the impact of the context on the individual’s mental health. Thus, plasticity is not beneficial per se but its value depends on contextual factors, such as the quality of the living environment. High plasticity is…

  walterstiers

  2025-08-12

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

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

• Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience

  “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures“ As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research approaches in neuroscience that we describe as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’.  Bottom-up neuroscience The bottom-up research culture…

  walterstiers

  2025-08-07

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, philosophy, Science

• Therapy That Isn’t Psychotherapy

  I found this nice discours on an interesting topic, related with individual challlenges, AI and related tools appearing in this relation. Therapy That Isn’t Psychotherapy by Steven Reidbord Reducing the problem to a merely external one leads to therapy that resembles political advocacy; therapy that prizes agreement (“validation”) over all else; therapy that absolves the patient…

  walterstiers

  2025-06-22

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• De Wilde Ziel

  De Wilde Ziel – Leven met de natuur als leraar: herontdek je wilde kant.Craig Foster, 2025 (origilele titel: “Amphibious Soul”) We zaten op een rots en ik vertelde Tom verhalen over mijn jeugd, over onze houten bungalow en over de nacht van de grote overstroming. Ik vertelde hem over het flesje met brieven en buitenlands…

  walterstiers

  2025-06-21

  #Sensemaking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, nederlands, recensie

•  ‘economic denial’

  The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned. André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian diplomat who will direct this year’s…

  walterstiers

  2025-06-16

  #stakeholder economy, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens

• Resilience phenotypes derived from an active inference account of allostasis

  “Resilience phenotypes derived from an active inference account of allostasis“:Within a theoretical framework of enactive allostasis, we explore active inference strategies for minimizing surprise to achieve resilience in dynamic environments. While individual differences and extrinsic protective factors traditionally account for variability in resilience trajectories following stressor exposure, the enactive model emphasizes the importance of the…

  walterstiers

  2025-05-09

  Active Inference, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, Science