Category: #Sensemaking

• a psychology of real-life decision-making

  “Toward a psychology of real-life decision-making” Novel developments in biologging technology allow for precise measurement of individual-level behavior across time and space. Additionally, novel technologies allow researchers to quantify in detail the environments in which people are embedded when making decisions. Such devices, however, are only useful to cognitive scientists when integrated with formal theoretical…

  walterstiers

  2026-09-11

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Dissent enhances the credibility …

  “Dissent enhances the credibility of groups of Bayesian conformist decision-makers “ When making a decision, individuals use their private information to evaluate the available options. In a group, they can also learn from other group members’ choices, which partially reveal their own private information. Bayesian estimation provides tools for modelling decisions that optimally balance these two…

  walterstiers

  2026-09-07

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Four faces of information in natural systems

  Ever wonder what “information” really means? Here‘s a new paper, that lays out the multiple ways the term is used in natural science. Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, the paper proposes a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits. The idea of ‘information’ has been instrumental to…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-30

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, philosophy, Science

• 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

• 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

• Modularisation & IT architecture complexity

  “Modularisation and the management of IT architecture complexity” Managing IT architecture complexity is crucial for organisations striving for efficiency, flexibility, and agility. This paper examines modularisation as a strategy to address IT architecture complexity through a case study at a European bank. We explore three key design choices in modularisation: level of granularity, standardisation of…

  walterstiers

  2026-05-14

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Information Technology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Top-down attention shifts event boundaries

  “Top-down attention shifts behavioral and neural event boundaries in narratives with overlapping event scripts” • Default mode regions represent schematic event scripts during narrative perception • Attending to an event script impacts behavioral event segmentation and memory • Neural dynamics in the mPFC reflect the event structure of an attended script Understanding and remembering the…

  walterstiers

  2026-04-29

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom

  #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 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

• 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

• 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

• Wise Machines

  “Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition” We examine the why and the how of building wise artificial intelligence. Wisdom helps humans navigate intractable problems through object-level strategies (for managing problems) and metacognitive strategies (for managing object-level strategies). Wise metacognition includes strategies such as intellectual humility, perspective-taking, and context adaptability. Wise artificial…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-13

  #Sensemaking, AI, Biology of Information, Information Technology, Practical Wisdom

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

• Robust Decision-Making Via Free Energy Minimization

  “Robust Decision-Making Via Free Energy Minimization” html, pdf, video, Nature Communications Despite their groundbreaking performance, state-of-the-art autonomous agents can misbehave when training and environmental conditions become inconsistent, with minor mismatches leading to undesirable behaviors or even catastrophic failures. Robustness towards these training/environment ambiguities is a core requirement for intelligent agents and its fulfillment is a…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-11

  #Sensemaking, Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, artificial-intelligence

• 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

• Inferring to cooperate: Bayesian inferential strategies

  “Inferring to cooperate: Evolutionary games with Bayesian inferential strategies” Strategies for sustaining cooperation and preventing exploitation by selfish agents in repeated games have mostly been restricted to Markovian strategies where the response of an agent depends on the actions in the previous round. Such strategies are characterized by lack of learning.However, learning from accumulated evidence…

  walterstiers

  2026-02-16

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Vertalen – Transmigratie

  DE KUNST VAN HET VERTALEN In de wondere wereld van de verbale transmigratie kunnen we drie kwaden onderscheiden. De eerste en minste van de drie bestaat uit aperte fouten, te wijten aan onwetendheid of foute kennis. Dit is slechts menselijke zwakte en derhalve pardonnabel. De volgende stap naar de Hel wordt gezet door de vertaler…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-29

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Was I fooled or wasn’t I?

  “What Is the Name of This Book?-The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles, by Raymond M. Smullyan” My introduction to logic was at the age of six. It happened this way: On April 1, 1925, I was sick in bed with grippe, or f lu, or something. In the morning my brother Emile (ten…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-15

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked

• Collective intelligence as collective information processing

  “Collective intelligence as collective information processing” We propose that Collective Information Processing (CIP) underlies CI. CIP distinguishes two forms of individual- and group-level processing. CIP enables identification and classification of phenomena labeled as CI. CIP advances debates about agency and causation within CI studies. Collective intelligence research spans multiple disciplines and focuses on a broad…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-09

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens

• A (Re)Solution

  I’d like to share the New Year Resolution of Tom Gauld It is a Re(al)Solution 😉

  walterstiers

  2026-01-01

  #Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson

  “Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson” Around the world in 48 penguin puzzles! Can you spot the penguin in every game this year? For five years now, Briefing readers have eagerly awaited Fridays for a chance to put their penguin-hunting skills to the test. Each week, Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin, travels to scientifically interesting (and…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-01

  #Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• The coevolution of cognition and sociality

  “The coevolution of cognition and sociality“ Cognition serves to resolve uncertainty. Living in social groups is widely seen as a source of uncertainty driving cognitive evolution, but sociality can also mitigate sources of uncertainty, reducing the need for cognition.Moreover, social systems are not simply external selection pressures but rather arise from the decisions individuals make…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-26

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, philosophy, psychology

• The Universe Learning Itself

  “The Universe Learning Itself: On the Evolution of Dynamics from theBig Bang to Machine Intelligence” We develop a unified, dynamical-systems narrative of the universe that traces a continuous chain of structure formation from the Big Bang to contemporary human societies and their artificial learning systems. Rather than treating cosmology, astrophysics, geophysics, biology, cognition, and machine…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-26

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, consciousness, philosophy, Science, spirituality

• 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