via Ivo Velitchkov

George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form is a work that deserves to be better known. Since its first publication in 1969, it has become something of a cult classic. It outlines a powerful content-free calculus based on a single act of making a distinction. From there, Spencer-Brown traces the path the universe takes to come into being in and of itself in order (as he argues) to know itself. In this video, Leon Conrad gives an overview of an on-line course he has designed to help people engage with the work in more depth – chapter by chapter – theorem by theorem, in a rigorous but easy-to-understand way. I recommend following through the course with a copy of the 2011 edition of Laws of Form. A great story-based introduction to the calculus and the way it works is George Burdett-Stuart’s website – The Markable Mark – www.markability.net

(3) Laws of Form Course – An Introduction to George Spencer-Brown’s ‘Laws of Form’ – YouTube

Classic Ackoff, via Alidad Hamidi, who says

HumanSelection (@Alidad Hamidi) Tweeted: POSIWID. Ackoff in this wonderful short video talk about the fact that we have sickness system and not health system and most of our social systems are doing the opposite of what the state they do.

(He clarified that the concept of POSIWID is from Stafford Beer)

Russell Ackoff

(1) Russell Ackoff / Haynes Media Works – YouTube

Cybernetic Aspects in the Agile Process Model Scrum

M. Bogner, Maria Hronek, F. Wiesinger

Published in ICSEA 2014 Engineering

Agile process models provide guidelines for modern software development. As one of their main purposes is to complete projects under external influences as successfully as possible, the question arises as to how reliably and routinely given project goals can be achieved by means of such process models. This is all the more relevant as today, unfinished software projects frequently lack certain functionality, or missed project deadlines are still on the daily agenda in software development. Therefore, research has been done to identify the coherences between agile process models and cybernetics. Cybernetics is a natural science based on biocybernetics which forms the basis for well-functioning processes. It was analysed how it helps to cope with complexity, thus allowing for viable complex systems or processes. Cybernetics, as a science of functioning, is also relevant for agile process models. Once the basic cybernetic aspects are applied, processes are kept under control and organized in ways that ensure long-term viability. This paper reports the results of the selected agile representative Scrum. It shows that although some major cybernetic aspects like communication, feedback and circularity are covered, other basic cybernetic principles are missing in Scrum. Yet, these shortcomings can be compensated in order to get essential reliability, especially in critical situations. Keywords–agile software development; Scrum; cybernetics; biocybernetics.

[PDF] Cybernetic Aspects in the Agile Process Model Scrum | Semantic Scholar

Down the Rabbit Hole: Tracking the Humanizing Effect of John Dewey?s Pragmatism on Norbert Wiener September 2015IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 34(3):64-71 DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2015.2461231 Laura Moorhead

(11) (PDF) Down the Rabbit Hole: Tracking the Humanizing Effect of John Dewey?s Pragmatism on Norbert Wiener

Neuropragmatism: A Neurophilosophical Manifesto

Tibor Solymosi and John Shook https://doi.org/10.4000/ejpap.671

Abstract 

Over the past three decades, cognitive science has been making a turn towards pragmatism. Here we outline steps towards completing this turn. As a handful of cognitive scientists and philosophers have been arguing more recently, the insights of William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead are not only being re-discovered, they are also proving rather prescient in light of growing research. The new field of neuropragmatism aims to take these insights seriously and further into new directions for both pragmatism and cognitive science. In this manifesto, a brief history of the relationship between classical pragmatism and the sciences of life and mind is offered as a background for twelve proposed theses of neuropragmatism. These theses serve as general guidelines for further philosophical and scientific research. To illustrate the possibilities and consequences of this neuropragmatic framework, neuropragmatist views on traditional questions of philosophy of mind, such as the mind-body relationship, are situated among other leading philosophical perspectives, like enactive, embodied, and embedded theories of cognition and mentation. Such views, however, when taken from a neuropragmatist perspecitve, have significant consequences for the philosophical project of reconciliation be- tween what Wilfrid Sellars called the scientific and manifest images of humanity. The difference in conceptions of experience and subesequently science are crucial for understanding the difference between Sellarsian neurophilosophy and neuropragmatism, as well as how to reach rapprochement between the sciences and the humanities.

Neuropragmatism: A Neurophilosophical Manifesto

Lifeworld Analysis Philip Agre pagre@ucsd.edu Department of Communication 0503 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093, USA and Ian Horswill ian@ils.nwu.edu Northwestern University Computer Science Department 1890 Maple Avenue Evanston, IL 60201, USA

Lifeworld Analysis

Mind, Self and Society – wikipedia

Mind, Self, and Society is a book based on the teaching of American sociologist George Herbert Mead‘s, published posthumously in 1934 by his students. It is credited as the basis for the theory of symbolic interactionism. Charles W. Morris edition of Mind, Self, and Society initiated controversies about authorship because the book was based on oral discourse and Mead’s students notes.^[1]

Mind, Self and Society – Wikipedia

Book:

Click to access mead1934.pdf

Symbolic interactionism (wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interactionism

In a meeting this year, Angus Doulton remarked ‘the concept of situation is a deepy cybernetic one’. This resonated so strongly with my thinking and provided such a powerful set of concepts that I am currently trying to include it properly in my writing, and having a kind of crisis of discovery at how much good stuff there is in Dewey (and next post coming on Mead and Symbolic Interactionism). Mind blown…

Situation and inquiry For Dewey (1938/1991), situation is not something we enter into, nor does it exist independent of inquiry. It is a dialectical event of which we are participants, not spectators. We change a problematic situation and are changed in turn through our actions. In his classic reflex arc paper, Dewey (1896/1972) shows how under this view, conventional distinctions between organism and environment, stimulus and response, body and mind, or cause and effect need to be reconsidered.

Situation and inquiry – Chip’s journey

The Concept of “Situation” in John Dewey’s Logic and Philosophy of Science – Brown (evidently a draft, undated)

What Does Mr. Dewey Mean by an “Indeterminate Situation”?
D. S. Mackay
The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Mar. 12, 1942), pp. 141-148

https://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.se/stable/2018415

What is a Situation?
Tom Burke (2000)
Department of Philosophy
University of South Carolina

https://philarchive.org/archive/TOMWIA

MEANS, ENDS AND MEDICAL CARE – Philosophy and Medicine, Vol 92

HG Wright (2007)

https://link.springer.com.sci-hub.se/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5292-7_4

Kumu’s suite of network mapping/weaving tools – and how they may help your network of improvers (Zoom) Cofounder and CEO of Kumu Jeff Mohr will share their suite of network mapping/weaving tools – showing how each might help your network and how to determine which is right for you (including a real-world example of an NHS integrated care system (ICS) network). Get Involved Communities of Practice Leadership Development Programme Q Visits Q Exchange Network Weaving: learning series Journals and Learning Resources QI Connect WebEx series Upcoming events Past events Your events Add your event Live streaming and webinar tools Resources Your resources Add your resource Report: The role of improvement during the response to COVID-19 Supporting local learning 6 Oct 2021 16:00 – 17:00

Kumu’s suite of network mapping/weaving tools – and how they may help your network of improvers (Zoom) | Q Community

Patterns and Pattern Languages Supporting Cross-boundary Collaboration | Doug Schuler (ST-ON 2021-04-12) September 29, 2021 daviding

Patterns and Pattern Languages Supporting Cross-boundary Collaboration | Doug Schuler (ST-ON 2021-04-12) – Coevolving Innovations

Interoception: The Secret Ingredient Your brain keeps you alive and well by running a metabolic “budget” for your body. Our authors, who co-direct the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital, explain how these budgetary activities, and the bodily sensations they create, suggest surprising connections between brain, mind, body, and world. Published: July 15, 2021 Authors: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D. , Karen S. Quigley, Ph.D.

Interoception: The Secret Ingredient | Dana Foundation

Allostatsis, interoception, exteroception and the continuum betwen them, prediction, mental vs physical and the continuum between them.

A brilliant introductory piece – it would have been utterly wonderful for me if:

• some of the links were to Robert Rosen, biological systems theory, Daoism or other slightly older roots (the piece if well-referenced through hyperlink and I didn’t click them all, but I think not), and
• if there was room for a bit of self-reflection on the reductive ‘brain circuitry’, elements of the brain, and ‘neurochemical effects’ compared to the story they were telling

Nevertheless, brilliant as an introduction and explanation with depth (and what do I know compared to Lisa Feldman Barrett?)

Launching on October 28, 2021!   A Future Untold The power of story to transform the world and ourselves By Alina Siegfried

Alina Siegfried book – Storytelling and Narrative for Systems Change

Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard Sep 27, 2021 Stafford Beer The Father of Management Cybernetics 2019

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