Category: Practical Wisdom

• Complex Systems Frameworks Collection

  Complex Systems Frameworks Collection The Complex Systems Frameworks Collection is a gerat resource for navigating an increasingly complex world. Over time, people have developed many excellent frameworks, analogies and models for understanding complexity. This collection brings them together in an illustrated collection to help you: Because complex isn’t the same as complicated. Each framework has its…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-19

  #Cynefin, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Something Disturbing Happens … With ChatGPT

  “Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT” (Text and image are from the original article) ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are replacing the search engine. Instead of letting you suffer the laborious task of looking up sources of information, these powerful large language models will simply concoct an answer for you, with the…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-16

  #Sensemaking, AI, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, openai, technology

• Collective predictive coding

  “Collective predictive coding as model of science: formalizing scientific activities towards generative science” This article proposes a new conceptual framework called collective predictive coding as a model of science (CPC‑MS) to formalize and understand scientific activities. Building on the idea of CPC originally developed to explain symbol emergence, CPC‑MS models science as a decentralized Bayesian…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-08

  #sense-making, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, Science

• The ‘made-up mind’.

  “The ‘made-up mind’. Deriving new hypotheses on delusions from general psychological models of belief maintenance” Highlights Contemporary definitions of delusions highlight their resistance to conflicting evidence as the core feature, but there has been little progress in understanding why even explicit confrontation with contradicting evidence seldom leads to belief revision. This review aims to generate…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-08

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

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

• Nature on the balance sheet …

  “Putting nature on the balance sheet: how to account for the ecological costs of our actions” Economists should consider forests and wetlands as well as factories and farms. A book review of “On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us“, Partha Dasgupta (2025) On Natural Capital recaps the roaring economic advances of the past 75…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-24

  #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, environment, nature, Sustainability

• Decisions: Studying and Supporting

  “Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices“ A lively, authoritative insider’s account of how we make decisions and how decision-making research has developed over the last half century. Decisions describes the evolution of decision science (also called behavioral decision research and related to behavioral economics) through its application to challenging personal and public policy decisions,…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-28

  Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• A Relational View of Uncertainty

  “A Relational View of Uncertainty” There is significant confusion and debate in entrepreneurship and strategy research about the nature and locus of uncertainty. Does uncertainty reside internally in the agent or externally in the environment? This article introduces a relational view of uncertainty (RVU) to help reframe this issue. In this framework, uncertainty is understood…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-03

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, artificial-intelligence, philosophy, Science

• Critical Thinking for Medicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts

  “Critical Thinking for 21st-CenturyMedicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts” Clinical Reasoning for 21st-Century Medicine: Optimal clinical reasoning will involve an appropriate balance betweenillness scripts and pathophysiological reasoning. In our view, medical education has historically overemphasized the former—to which learners are predisposed even without explicit teaching— and underemphasized the latter. The risks of this historical approach will become…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-29

  Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• “Play should always be led by the child and what the child wants to do”

  “Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play” Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents. Over the past two decades, research has emerged showing that opportunities for risky play are crucial for healthy physical, mental and emotional development.…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-10

  Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, children, education, family, mental-health, parenting

• 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