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Cybernetics and Systems

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Cybernetics and Systems

For a Special Issue on
Redesigning Education and Governance in the Anthropocene

Manuscript deadline
15 May 2022

Special Issue Editor(s)

Alfonso Reyes, Universidad de Ibagué
areyes@unibague.edu.co

Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Federal University of Santa Catarina
sandro.schlindwein@ufsc.br

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Cybernetics and Systems For a Special Issue on Redesigning Education and Governance in the Anthropocene

Cybernetics and Systems

hmm… HBR doing what it do…

Taming Complexity

Taming Complexity

Make sure the benefits of any addition to an organization’s systems outweigh its costs. by 

• Martin Reeves,
• Simon Levin,
• Thomas Fink,
• Ania Levina

From the Magazine (January–February 2020)Tatiana Plakhova Summary.   

It can be cognitively demanding to understand how a system or organization made up of many very different interconnected elements actually works. But the fact that such systems or organizations are difficult to understand doesn’t make them inherently bad. In addition to its more obvious costs, complexity confers critical benefits, especially in dynamic and uncertain environments. The authors draw on their experience and perspectives in business, biology, and physics to offer some reflections on the nature, benefits, and costs of complexity and provide some guidance on managing it. Their recommendations: In growing your organization, make sure that it remains modular in structure and that all components and connections conform to a small number of simple operating principles. Embed a bias for change, avoid imposing too many controls on your people, and let the market judge which changes work. Finally, always optimize your organization globally and keep fixing, repairing, and pruning.

Taming Complexity

Taming Complexity

Human Cognitive Pacemakers: Beyond Functionlistic, Formalistic Analysis of Life Sarah Bro Trasmundi Oslo University; Centre for Human Interactivity, Unversity of Southern Denmark Feb. 10, 2022, noon UTC // Feb. 10, 2022, noon in UTC Human life is a process that is punctuated by events (Stewart, 2019). In this lecture I focus on (i) the temporal dynamics that compose an event and (ii) how such events are grounded in imaginative, creative processes from an affective-embodied cognitive perspective. That is, how do people come up with new solutions, and why do such solutions sometimes deviate from what is expected? Often deviations emerge for no obvious reason and reveal themselves in punctuations such as breaks and ruptures.

ENSO Seminar Series

Relational agency: a new ontology for co-evolving systems Francis Heylighen Centre Leo Apostel

Relational agency: a new ontology for co-evolving systems — Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Simon, G. (2018). Eight Criteria for Quality in Systemic Practitioner Research. Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice, 1(2), 40–62. https://doi.org/10.28963/1.2.5 More Citation Formats

Eight Criteria for Quality in Systemic Practitioner Research | Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice

Make sense of messy topics together Sticky Studio is a collaborative space for complex discussions

Sticky Studio

In the Ecology of Systems Thinking group on Facebook, Gene Bellinger says:

Take a look at Sticky Studio from the Kumu people. A real-time web-based environment for creating relationship maps. Partway down on the entry page is a Brief Guide done in Sticky Studio. There is also a link to a temporary board where you can try out the environment. And they’ve updated the pricing scheme so you can create as many public boards as you care to with as many collaborators as you might need. This is awesome stuff!!!

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Adaptive Computing

ADAPTIVE COMPUTING

Class overview

Complex systems are characterized by interactions that may generate novel information. This information can change problems, so previous solutions become obsolete. To face complexity, we need adaptation. In this course, we will cover different methods for building systems that can adapt to unforeseen changes.

Go to Classroom.

The class is open and free for all students worldwide.

Those who deliver successfully coursework and final project will receive a certificate.

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Like-minded Visionaries

Like-minded Visionaries: Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller | McLuhan Galaxy

What is Cybernetics? Conference by Stafford Beer

What is Cybernetics? Conference by Stafford Beer – YouTube

Pretty sure I’ve seen this before so I’ve probably shared it, but I am not good at searching today so didn’t find it…

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The Reality War – by N.S. Lyons – The Upheaval

The Reality War

Gnostics. It’s just Gnostics all the way down.

What if I told you our world isn’t as it seems? That much of what we call politics and the “culture war” is really an ancient theological war over the metaphysics of reality, colliding with the digital revolution? Well, if you’re willing to follow the white rabbit, then take whatever color of pill you’re partial to, strap on your VR headset, and buckle up, because this is gonna get weird.

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The Reality War Gnostics. It’s just Gnostics all the way down.

The Reality War – by N.S. Lyons – The Upheaval

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What makes EDI so hard? – Blog – Stedi

January 5, 2022

What makes EDI so hard?

EDI – Electronic Data Interchange – is an umbrella term for many different “standardized” frameworks for exchanging business-to-business transactions. It dates back to the 1960s and remains a pain point in every commercial industry from supply chain and logistics to healthcare and finance. What makes it so hard? Why is it still an unsolved problem despite many decades of immense usage?

What makes EDI so hard?

What makes EDI so hard? – Blog – Stedi

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The Gorilla in the Room – Radiology Today Magazine

The Gorilla in the Room
By Beth W. Orenstein
Radiology Today
Vol. 22 No. 3 P. 22

Studies show why some radiologists may turn a blind eye to unexpected abnormalities.

The Gorilla in the Room By Beth W. Orenstein Radiology Today Vol. 22 No. 3 P. 22

The Gorilla in the Room – Radiology Today Magazine

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(PDF) Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness

Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness

• January 1972

• William Torbert

Abstract

This book addresses the question of how people learn from experience. The topic is unusually slippery and easily eludes one’s grasp just when one feels one has it defined and placed. For example, scientific investigation seeks objective knowledge, yet experience is unmistakably subjective; therefore, must not the esse

Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness January 1972 William Torbert

(PDF) Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness

Good regulator

Good regulator – Wikipedia

EVERY GOOD REGULATOR OF A SYSTEM MUST BE A MODEL
OF THAT SYSTEM – Conant and Ashby, 1970

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Conant_Ashby.pdf