Category: #sense-making

• 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

• 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

• Making sense of wickedness

  “Making sense of wickedness: Directionality heuristics for challenge-led innovation policy” Highlights Sense-making helps to understand how policymakers view and tackle wicked problems. Directionality heuristics are mental shortcuts used to interpret and address problems. Different degrees of wickedness call for different directionality heuristics. Nescience creates additional directionality challenges for challenge-led policies. This article contributes to the…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-14

  #Cynefin, #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Policy, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• 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

• Brain rhythms – predictive processing perspective

  “Brain rhythms of depression: A predictive processing perspective” Findings from electroencephalography studies converge on the notion that depression involves disrupted updating of beliefs, wherein positive and corrective information carries too little weight to revise rigid expectations about the self and the world. Across a range of neural signals, the brains of individuals with depression register…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-01

  #sense-making, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, mental-health

• 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

• The Common Good Economy

  “The Common Good Economy. A new compass” Synopsis Our economic system is broken. The climate crisis is accelerating. Inequality is deepening. Public trust is crumbling. Wealth concentrates in fewer hands while governments scramble to fix what markets can’t do, rather than to shape them from the outset. For too long, economics has treated ‘the good’…

  walterstiers

  2026-06-15

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, economics, economy, philosophy, politics

• 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

• Cooperation versus social welfare

  “Cooperation versus social welfare” Understanding and promoting cooperative behaviour among self-interested individuals is a critical concern in physical, biological, and social sciences. Numerous foundational mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation have been identified, and these mechanisms have served as the basis for developing tools and interventions designed to sustain and enhance cooperative behaviour. However, since…

  walterstiers

  2026-05-24

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• 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

• The role of context in continuity and segmentation

  “The role of context in continuity and segmentation” Human experience intertwines continuity, the seamless flow of events, with segmentation, the spontaneous partitioning of experience into discrete units. Despite their cognitive significance, it is unclear whether these processes operate independently or share a common mechanism. Here we explored this question by examining the link between serial…

  walterstiers

  2026-04-29

  #sense-making, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Beyond Belief

  “Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works” The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions. Published by Princeton University Press, April 2026. Today, more and more people around the globe are using scientific evidence to figure out what works—in health, government and business as…

  walterstiers

  2026-04-27

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, philosophy, Science

• Has AI Ended Thought Leadership?

  “Has AI Ended Thought Leadership?”   As generative AI and content platforms make it effortless to sound authoritative, organizations are being overwhelmed by polished insight that rarely translates into real change. The growing gap between those who talk about the future of work and those who actually build it has turned expertise into performance, leaving leaders…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-25

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Innovation Games, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, AI, marketing, technology, writing

• 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

• 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

• Not just heard, but judged

  “Not just heard, but judged: a multidimensional perspective on auditory attention in everyday life” This review examines how listeners evaluate sounds in everyday contexts and how auditory attention research has approached this process. While experimental paradigms have yielded important insights into auditory processing, their constructs often rely on task-specific definitions that may not fully reflect…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-17

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Active Construction of Past Episodes

  “The active construction of past episodes” Episodic memories – declarative memories of past events, characterized by rich spatiotemporal context – play a central role in guiding perception and behaviour. Here, we advance a model that integrates episodic memories within the active inference framework. We describe how episodic memories are incorporated into the generative models used…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-16

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Neurobiology/psychology

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking

  “Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking” We tested intuitive vs. deliberate responding using a two-response paradigm. Correct creative answers often emerged intuitively under load and time pressure. Intuitive solutions rely on fast associative processes in semantic memory. Intuition may play a greater role in creativity than previously assumed. Convergent thinking, the ability…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-09

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Switching, fast and slow

  “Switching, fast and slow: Deciphering the dynamics of memory search, its brain connectivity patterns, and its role in creativity “ Creative ideas emerge from the process of searching and combining concepts in memory, involving both associative and controlled mechanisms. How these processes unfold during memory search and relate to creativity remains unclear. We explored the neurocognitive…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-09

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Science, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens