Tag: #TheInformationLens

• How Constraints Create Coherence

  This entry is a pointer to the long-expected work of Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything, How Constraints Create Coherence how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation. Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrerochallenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are…

  walterstiers

  2023-07-12

  #Cynefin, #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Some Advise on AI (research)

  “Look for somewhere that you think everybody’s doing it wrong.” Geoffrey Hinton Pioneering artificial-intelligence researcher Geoffrey Hinton, who quit his job at Google so he can speak freely about the dangers of the technology, says young researchers should trust their intuition to find alternative ways of doing things. (University of Toronto video | 46 min…

  walterstiers

  2023-06-30

  #sense-making, AI, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• AI can distort human beliefs

  Without a zone of uncertainty plus other troubling features, generative AI is poised to amplify bias and falsehoods, distort human perception. Individual humans form their beliefs by sampling a small subset of the available data in the world. Once those beliefs are formed with high certainty, they can become stubborn to revise. Fabrication and bias…

  walterstiers

  2023-06-23

  #Sensemaking, AI, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

  #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• The self is an illusion

  The truth is that your left brain has been interpreting reality for you your whole life, and if you are like most people, you have never understood the full implications of this. This is because we mistake the story of who we think we are for who we truly are.  “Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of…

  walterstiers

  2023-06-16

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• I must admit … meditative walking is, indeed, a practice.

  The next time you feel stuck or have a problem you can’t solve, I encourage you to try a productive meditation. Occupy yourself with a routine activity and contemplate a well-defined problem, with the precise goal of finding a solution. The change of pace allows you to access big-picture thinking, a chance to mentally step…

  walterstiers

  2023-06-08

  #sense-making, Life Ideas, Walking

  #TheInformationLens

• Facts are not enough

  Claude Garcia & Patrick Waeber developed a framework based on behavioural and cognitive sciences, game theory, and set theory that helps us understand decisionmaking in the context of uncertainty. It was published recently in a nice article on the researchfeatures of researchoutreach. Every single day we make thousands of decisions. Even if it is unclear…

  walterstiers

  2023-05-19

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Policy

  #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Decoding reward–curiosity conflict in decision-making from irrational behaviors

  Humans and animals are not always rational. “Decoding reward–curiosity conflict in decision-making from irrational behaviors” discusses the fact humans not only rationally exploit rewards but also explore an environment owing to their curiosity. However, the mechanism of such curiosity-driven irrational behavior is largely unknown. The article develops a decision-making model for a two choice task…

  walterstiers

  2023-05-19

  #Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Creativity in Motion

  Some publications related to this topic: Embodiment and Human Development It is becoming increasingly accepted that the study of cognitive, social, and emotional processes must account for the embodiment of these processes in living, acting people. Within cognitive science, how bodily factors play a role in mental life is often considered through the lens of…

  walterstiers

  2023-05-09

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Uncategorized

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction

  I found – rather serendipitous – this recent, open access and very interesting book “Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction“, edited by Springer 2023. This Open Access book presents the current state of the art knowledge on social and affective neuroscience based on empirical findings. Some highlights as appetiser: Molecular Imaging of the…

  walterstiers

  2023-05-09

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Walking

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Affect and Decision Making (computational models)

  Decision science evolve towards the use of formalized mathematical and computational models of choice (such as sequential accumulator or driftdiffusion models, DDMs). These may represent a key step forward, butonly if they properly incorporate the conceptual and theoretical richness of the affective sciences. Computational models increasingly inform our understanding of decision processes, but the influence…

  walterstiers

  2023-05-02

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• “gone too far”

  The history of movement has faced a crisis relationship between two elemental human phenomena: 1. On one hand there is the principle of economy—the human aspiration to reduce physical and mental efforts to a minimum, 2. and on the other hand there is the adaptation principle—the natural dependence of human beings on movement. The principle…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-25

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical, Walking

  #TheInformationLens

• How Capitalism WASTES Billions

  Mariana Mazzucato’s Tour De Force Professor Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most exciting economic thinkers.Her new book – THE BIG CON – exposes how consultancy firms are eating up billions upon billions of pounds working on government projects and using the capitalism game-rules. You won’t think of our economic system the same way…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-22

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

  A new theory of embodied consciousness has been described by Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio  in Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking. Forget ‘I think therefore I am’.  feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed as secondary to reason, feelings are where consciousness begins. Without them, consciousness is impossible – with radical implications for the ‘hard…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-21

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens

• Symmetry–simplicity–complexity

  A number of (the 15) contributions to a theme issue ‘Making and breaking symmetries in mind and life’ have some interest to be referred. Symmetry is a motif featuring in almost all areas of science. Symmetries appear throughout the natural world, making them particularly important in our quest to understand the structure of the world…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-16

  #Wicked, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

  #emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• States of Mind (SoMs): TD:BU balance

  Noa Herz, Shira Baror, and Moshe Bar discuss in a 2020 opinion article the Overarching States of Mind.We all have our varying mental emphases, inclinations, and biases. These individual dispositions are dynamic in that they can change over time and context. The opinion article proposes that these changing states of mind (SoMs) are holistic in…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-16

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Bayesian Nonlinear Models

  The review article Bayesian Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data gives a valuation of the use for the Bayesian Model to solve complex problems. Nonlinear mixed effects models have become a standard platform for analysis when data is in the form of continuous and repeated measurements of subjects from a population of interest, while temporal…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-15

  Active Inference, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• The innovation and intelligence of goats …

  Goats have not (yet) earned a reputation for their problem-solving abilities. But if you hide food in a strange cup and put a lid on it, a goat may find a way, a new study finds. And not just any goat. Animals that functioned like outsiders in their social group were best at tackling and…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-06

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Interprofessional sense-making

  Medical Emergency Departments serve as a main entry point for patients into hospitals, and the team, the core of which is formed by doctors and nurses needs to make sense of and respond to the constant flux of information. This requires sense-making, communication, and collaborative operational decision-making. The study’s main aim was to explore how…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-06

  #Cynefin, #sense-making, Complexity, Information Technology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• Small steps

  Small steps for mankind: Modeling the emergence of cumulative culture from joint active inference communication discusses a testable deep active inference formulation of social behavior and accompanying simulations of cumulative culture in two steps: First: cast cultural transmission as a bi-directional process of communication that induces a generalized synchrony (operationalized as a particular convergence) between…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-28

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Resemblance to reAIlity …

  Questioner: How much will LLM impact human activity?Answer: Hmmm, the oncoming singularity?Q: YesA: Try … Tudor’s Graph. Q: What’s the data behind this?A: Seriously? Ok, let me make it clearer …

  walterstiers

  2023-03-28

  #sense-making, AI, Information Technology, Innovation Games

  #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Whatever the Problem, It’s probably solved by walking.

  The title of this NYT opinion tells it all… Andrew McCarthy is the author of “Walking With Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain.” Walking is the worst-kept secret I know. Its rewards hide under every step. “walking is man’s best medicine.”“If you are in a bad mood, gofor a walk.…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-27

  Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Sustainability, Walking

  #TheInformationLens

• Peter Pan ?

  There is controversy around the mechanisms that guided the change in brain shape during the evolution of modern humans. It has long been held that different cortical areas evolved independently from each other to develop their unique functional specializations. Some recent studies suggest that high integration between different cortical areas could facilitate the emergence of…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-20

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

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Native language & connectome of the brain

  Investigation towards the question if the neuroanatomy of the language structural connectome is modulated by the life-long experience of speaking a specific language are presented. The current study compared the brain white matter connections of the language and speech production network in a large cohort of native speakers of two very different languages: an Indo-European…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-20

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Social-Technical

  #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Perceived time & heartbeat

  This blog entry about the Current Biology article “Perceived time expands and contracts within each heartbeat” relates perfectly to my previous blog on “cardiac activity: its role in perception and action“ Perception of passing time can be distorted. Emotional experiences, particularly arousal, can contract or expand experienced duration via their interactions with attentional and sensory…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-20

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology

  #emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked