Tag: #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

  Science, Biology of Information, Neurobiology/psychology, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, #Wicked, #sense-making

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Interpersonal Neural Synchrony

  “A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony” Highlights Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS), the temporal alignment of brain activities between individuals, has been proposed as a biomarker for successful communication and smooth social interaction. Surging empirical evidence shows that INS emerges spontaneously between infants, children, and their caregivers from early on in development. Yet, little is…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-18

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health

• Making sense of wickedness

  “Making sense of wickedness: Directionality heuristics for challenge-led innovation policy” Highlights This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on directionality challenges by introducing directionality heuristics as a lens to conceptualize how policymakers and other stakeholders interpret and respond to problems in challenge-led innovation policy. Our starting point is that the “wickedness” of problems is strongly…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-14

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

  #ProblemSolvingMind, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #StakeholderEconomy

• 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…

  walterstiers

  2026-08-05

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #ProblemSolvingMind, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #EconomicBehavior

• 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

• Brabant eindelijk belicht

  VRT-journalist Luc Pauwels brengt een naar eigen zeggen ‘schandelijk onderbelicht stuk’ van de Vlaamse geschiedschrijving opnieuw tot leven. Pauwels beschrijft hoe één illustere Brabantse dynastie uit de brokstukken van het uiteengevallen Karolingische rijk een middeleeuws staatje smeedt dat ruim de helft van het huidige Vlaanderen en het zuiden van Nederland beslaat: het aloude hertogdom Brabant.…

  walterstiers

  2026-07-14

  #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, AI, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, blog, identiteit, nederlands

• Embodied Intelligence

  “Embodied Intelligence, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems” An exploration of embodied intelligence that moves beyond the traditional focus on brains and code to the role of embodiment across various disciplines.   Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu. —Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate,There is nothing in the understanding that is…

  walterstiers

  2026-07-13

  Uncategorized

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens

• 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

• What Lives?

  “What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition ofLife” The question of “what is life?” has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of disciplinary perspectives brought to bear on the question.Despite significant progress in our understanding of…

  walterstiers

  2026-07-13

  #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #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

• 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

• 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…

  walterstiers

  2026-06-10

  Complexity, Information Technology, Science, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, philosophy, Science

• 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

• 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

• Neurocognitive Dynamics: Nonergodicity and Simpson’s paradox

  “Nonergodicity and Simpson’s paradox in neurocognitive dynamics of cognitive control” Nonergodicity and Simpson’s paradox present significant, yet underappreciated challenges in cognitive neuroscience. Leveraging brain imaging and behavioral data from over 4000 individuals and a Bayesian computational model of cognitive dynamics, we investigated brain-behavior relationships underlying cognitive control at both between-subjects and within-subjects levels. Strikingly, brain-behavior…

  walterstiers

  2026-05-12

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, mental-health, Science

• 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

• 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

• 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