Category: Social-Technical
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FROM RISK TO FLOURISHING
“FROM RISK TO FLOURISHING: SEEDS FOR RESPONDING TO ACOMPLEX WORLD” Flourishing is the actualization of all beings toward their good–not only individually but collectively, answering the question of ‘how do we live well with and for each other?’. In science as in society, the tendency to reduce, segregate, specialize, and settle has precluded embracing the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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The physics of news, rumors, and opinions
“The physics of news, rumors, and opinions” The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to a complex adaptive information ecosystem where individuals and machines compete for attention, leading to emergent collective phenomena. The flow of information in this ecosystem…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
“Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis”. For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human-induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since…
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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: work more effectively with complex problems, challenge conventional wisdom, and develop…
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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…
