Tuesday, March 1, 2022 What Causes Complexity? Mun-Wai Hosted by Mun-Wai

What Causes Complexity? | Meetup

Explaining behaviour through the sequence of changes that occurred over the course of evolution, with an example of how basic feedback control of interaction was elaborated during vertebrate evolution to give rise to the functional architecture of the mammalian brain.

Time for Action: Reaching for a Better Understanding of the Dynamics of Cognition Open Access Published: 03 June 2019 Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement Paul Cisek 

Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement | SpringerLink

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This article proposes that biologically plausible theories of behavior can be constructed by following a method of “phylogenetic refinement,” whereby they are progressively elaborated from simple to complex according to phylogenetic data on the sequence of changes that occurred over the course of evolution. It is argued that sufficient data exist to make this approach possible, and that the result can more effectively delineate the true biological categories of neurophysiological mechanisms than do approaches based on definitions of putative functions inherited from psychological traditions. As an example, the approach is used to sketch a theoretical framework of how basic feedback control of interaction with the world was elaborated during vertebrate evolution, to give rise to the functional architecture of the mammalian brain. The results provide a conceptual taxonomy of mechanisms that naturally map to neurophysiological and neuroanatomical data and that offer a context for defining putative functions that, it is argued, are better grounded in biology than are some of the traditional concepts of cognitive science.

A global gathering for systems innovators…  Si Conference  London PAST CONFERENCE What  Si London Conference will be a unique 2 day event bringing together a diverse community of systems thinkers, systems changers and innovators When The event will take place in person in London UK, for two full days on May Friday 13th and Saturday 14th, 2022

Systems Innovation Platform

The 6 tensions between design and management / David Dunne / Circle #06 Service Design Show

The 6 tensions between design and management / David Dunne / Circle #06 by Service Design Show

Nice gentle systems thinking in the above.

The Service Design show has had some very good guests recently, see

FEB 20 Thinking Transversally by American Society for Cybernetics

Thinking Transversally Tickets, Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

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Competence in Complexity

Competence in Complexity

The Competence in Complexity programme offers a year-long process for participants to develop their 21st century competencies and to demonstrate them in practice in effective, transformative action.  Download: details of next Programme May 2022 – May 2023 The programme is hosted in our online Atelier space, a dedicated virtual space for participants to connect, converse, share and access materials, resources and insights and to remain ‘on campus’ throughout in a dedicated community of practice.   All workshops in the programme are conducted online to allow for international participation.   The curriculum is designed around three modules (see graphic).  Each is designed to be a valuable and rounded experience in itself.  We recommend, however, that participants take the full programme in order to gain maximum benefit from a supported learning environment designed for slow, substantial growth and development over the course of a full year.

more info: Competence in Complexity

Competence in Complexity

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2022 Critical Social Ontology Workshop Program Posted on January 28, 2022 by rgroff2013 Conference will be free, but you’ll need to register. Details coming shortly. For now, e-mail ruth groff slu.edu to express your interest.

2022 Critical Social Ontology Workshop Program | Powers, Capacities & Dispositions

Evaluating government spending: Findings and recommendations from the latest National Audit Office report   Tuesday 15th March 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 GMT

CECAN Webinar: Evaluating government spending: Findings and recommendations from the latest National Audit Office report

Markov genealogy processes for exact phylodynamic inference A Hybrid(!!) Complex Systems Seminar Room 747 Weiser Hall and ZOOM (link below)      Aaron King UM Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for the Study of Complex Systems Tuesday, February 15, 2022 11:30AM EST

CSCS Seminar Presents Feb. 15: “Markov genealogy processes for exact phylodynamic inference” 1st Hybrid Seminar!! (since…a while)

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How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable – YouTube

How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable

1,459 views11 Feb 202240DISLIKESHAREDOWNLOADSAVEMashable1.12M subscribersSUBSCRIBEDIn the 1970s, the US government and a group of universities were working on the fastest possible way to connect unwieldy mainframe computers separated by thousands of miles. Their work, the ARPANET, would become the basis for the modern internet. The networks we now depend on still reflect the purpose and worldview of its time and place: open, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable. But there is another story. A hemisphere away, a group of programmers in Santiago, Chile were building a network of their own. Project Cybersyn had a purpose, ethos, and design completely different from the American network. In the two brief years it lasted, Cybersyn’s creators saw the shape of something unique, something that was lost before we ever really learned what it could have meant to a networked world.

How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable

How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable – YouTube

Michael Garfield Mar 25, 2017 · 10 min read · Listen How to Live in The Future Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed

How to Live in The Future Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed | by Michael Garfield | Medium

Systemogenesis as a General Regulator of Brain Development Author links open overlay panel

P.K.Anokhin

Systemogenesis as a General Regulator of Brain Development – ScienceDirect

Systemogenesis as a General Regulator of Brain Development

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The data collected in the laboratories over a number of years gives an opportunity to suggest that systemogenesis is a real regulator of the development of the brain structures and functions. The development goes on all the time selectively and is accelerated in accordance with the earliest needed adaptation to the outside surroundings by the newborn animal. It is seen that the well-timed consolidation of the vitally needed functional systems of the organism is continuously monitored by the systemic initial arrangement, the growth, and consolidation of the components of the functional system. It is also seen that this heterochronic maturation of different components of the functional system takes place everywhere, including the finest organizations on the level of molecular combinations and in the processes of the selective and successive maturation of individual synaptic organizations, in particular, on the cortical level. It is true that the systemogenetic type of the maturation and the growth is the most marked for those functional systems of the organism, which must be mature exactly at the moment of birth. They are evidently inborn, the preparation for their consolidation is preformed, and in fact, in the process of the ontogenesis, they correspond demonstrably to the ecological factors of that species of animal. The combination of the components of later and finer organized functional systems on the basis of which different behavioral acts are formed is less easily demonstrated. In that case, maturation and formation of new synaptic organizations of the brain in the presence of the completely mature peripheral working apparatus begin to play a leading role.

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🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 38 February 10th, 2022 The FLUX Collective 9 hr ago 2 Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park // Photo: Neel Mehta, FLUX Episode 38 — February 10th, 2022 — Available at read.fluxcollective.org/p/38 Contributors to this issue: Ade Oshineye, Dimitri Glazkov, Erika Rice Scherpelz, Stefano Mazzocchi, Justin Quimby, Alex Komoroske, Boris Smus, Neel Mehta,  Robinson Eaton Additional insights from: Gordon Brander, a.r. Routh, Ben Mathes, Spencer Pitman We’re a ragtag band of systems thinkers who have been dedicating our early mornings to finding new lenses to help you make sense of the complex world we live in. This newsletter is a collection of patterns we’ve noticed in recent weeks. “To be soft is to be powerful” ― Rupi Kaur 🔬🔭 From problems to problem spaces We humans love to measure our usefulness by our problem-solving ability. Yet, in this complex world, the process of problem-solving alone rarely leads to closure. More often than not, an attempt to solve a given problem just produces another set of problems… some larger than the original. At first, these new problems might not register as actual problems. Over time they fester and grow, first just a nuisance, then nipping at our heels, and then, with a sudden phase transition, looming in front of us like the iceberg that sank the Titanic. An organization that celebrates itself as a problem-solving machine is likely at an earlier stage of its cultural evolution. Progress here is defined by solving more problems more quickly, without pausing to think whether today’s problem was caused by yesterday’s speedy solution. Words such as “impact” and “launch” are at the center of its vernacular.

🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 38 – 🌀🗞 The FLUX Review