Tag: #ProblemSolvingMind

• 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

• To explore or exploit: Individual differences in preschool decision making

  “To explore or exploit: Individual differences in preschool decision making” esearch suggests a pattern of moderate early exploration (shifting from deck to deck) followed by exploitation (consistent choice from advantageous decks) characterizes good decision makers. The main goal of the current study was to use a person centered (latent profile analysis) to explore individual differences…

  walterstiers

  2026-06-10

  Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• 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 & ITarchitecture 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

• 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

• 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

• MOPGA: Multidisciplinary science

  “Multidisciplinary science funding is more than ever a planetary priority: Reflections from the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) program” Global change poses “wicked problems” that have become ever more complex, pervasive, and damaging. Developing innovative solutions increasingly require diverse research approaches. The Franco-German Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) program was designed to create a unique…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-14

  Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• 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

• Your brain on nature

  “Your brain on nature: A scoping review of the neuroscience of nature exposure” The relationship between natural environments and human cognition has gathered increasing attention across disciplines, including neuroscience, environmental psychology, and public health. An expanding body of empirical evidence supports the notion that exposure to nature consistently promotes psychological and physiological well-being. However, our…

  walterstiers

  2026-03-10

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

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

• 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

• Delusion as embodied emotion

  “Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK” Delusions in psychosis involve complex and dynamic experiential, affective, cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal alterations. Their pattern of emergence during the early stages of illness remains poorly understood and the origin of their thematic content unclear. Phenomenological accounts have emphasised alterations…

  walterstiers

  2026-01-14

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, health, mental-health, philosophy, psychology

• Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking

  “Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking” Convergent thinking, the ability to find a single optimal solution to a well-defined problem, is considered a core component of creativity, and is often assumed to rely on controlled, deliberative processes. We tested this assumption using the Compound Remote Associates (CRA) test, where participants have to…

  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

• 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

• 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

• Why collective behavioursself-organize to criticality

  “Why collective behaviours self-organize to criticality: a primer on information-theoretic and thermodynamic utility measures” Collective behaviours are frequently observed to self‑organize to criticality. Existing proposals to explain these phenomena are fragmented across disciplines and only partially answer the question. This primer compares the underlying, intrinsic, utilities that may explain the self‑organization of collective behaviours near…

  walterstiers

  2025-12-08

  #Wicked, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, Science, 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

• Stubborn Goals: the adaptive value

  “The adaptive value of stubborn goals” Humans exhibit a striking tendency to persist with chosen goals. This strong attachment to goals can often appear irrational – a perspective captured by terms such as perseverance or sunk-cost biases. In this review, we explore how goal commitment could stem from several adaptive mechanisms, including those that optimise…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-03

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

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

• Computational Framework for cognitive biology

  “Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition” Progress in understanding cognition requires a quantitative, theoretical framework, grounded in the other natural sciences and able to bridge between implementational, algorithmic and computational levels of explanation. This review article reviews recent results in neuroscience and cognitive biology that, when combined, provide key components…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-29

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, philosophy

• 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