Coexploring Systems Literacy | Peter Tuddenham | Systems Thinking Ontario 2021-03-08
Coexploring Systems Literacy | Peter Tuddenham | Systems Thinking Ontario 2021-03-08 – YouTube
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The Rise of the Cognitive Ecosystem – Issues in Science and Technology
World Wide Weird: Rise of the Cognitive Ecosystem
The Rise of the Cognitive Ecosystem – Issues in Science and Technology
Social media, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and the data economy are coming together in a way that transcends how humans understand and control our world.
In the beginning of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, an ape, after hugging a strange monolith, picks up a bone and randomly begins playing with it … and then, as Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra rings in the background, the ape realizes that the bone it is holding is, in fact, a weapon. The ape, the bone, and the landscape remain exactly the same, yet something fundamental has changed: an ape casually holding a bone is a very different system than an ape consciously wielding a weapon. The warrior ape is an emergent cognitive phenomenon, neither required nor deterministically produced by the constituent parts: a bone, and an ape, in a savannah environment.
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Postcognitivism – Wikipedia
Postcognitivism
Postcognitivism – Wikipedia
Postcognitivism
Movements in cognitive science are considered to be post-cognitivist if they are opposed to or move beyond the cognitivist theories posited by Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, David Marr, and others.
Postcognitivists challenge tenets within cognitivism, including ontological dualism, representational realism, that cognition is independent of processes outside the mind and nervous system, that the electronic computer is an appropriate analogy for the mind, and that cognition occurs only within individuals.[1]
Researchers who have followed post-cognitive directions include Hubert Dreyfus, Gregory Bateson, Bradd Shore, Jerome Bruner, Vittorio Guidano, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.[2]
South African launch – ‘The Systems Work of Social Change’ book, 14 October, 3pm Johannesburg
| Direct link to register: https://uctgsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_veySjgr1RlKCX0KWLfLcvQ Register now – SA Book Launch | 14 October 2021 View in web browser Book Overview The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more critical. The current approaches to social change are not helping. In The Systems Work of Social Change book, Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici draw on two hundred years of history and stories of committed social change-makers to uncover principles and practices for social change that radically depart from traditional approaches. Rather than delivering “solutions,” these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Through storytelling and analysis, Rayner and Bonnici show that connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, to create social systems that are responsive and representative in a rapidly changing world. Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe Guest Speaker Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a businesswoman and philanthropist who started her career in medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked in various public hospitals in South Africa as well as at the Medical College of Virginia in the United States.Together with her husband, Dr Patrice Motsepe, she founded the Motsepe Foundation in 1999, and in 2013 they became the first couple from Africa to join The Giving Pledge. She holds an MBChB and a diploma in child health from Wits, as well as a diploma in women’s health from Stellenbosch University. Dr Moloi-Motsepe authored a resource guide for women across South Africa, The Precious Little Black Book, and has produced the Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative South Africa. Her professional associations include the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board and Centre for Public Leadership Council, the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council, and the Cancer Association of South Africa (past president). Extract Chapter 2: Complexity, Scale, and Depth To move away from this straightforward view of social change can feel disorienting. While the “long arc” of social change has become compressed, it can often feel that we are back in the same place that we started, or, worse, that we’ve unleashed unintended negative consequences, leading to even greater problems. Our traditional guideposts for progressive change have been largely tangible: the end of apartheid; winning the vote; the passage of marriage equality; substantial increases in longevity, literacy, and living standards. Available at OUP or Amazon. |
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Complexity Weekend – November 12 – 14, 2021
Complexity Weekend Online Community of Practice Register now to join our next global cohort, as we come together before and during the November 12th-14th weekend to learn Complexity Science by doing.
Complexity Weekend – November 12 – 14, 2021 | November 12, 2021 – November 14, 2021
RSD Symposium – Relating Systems Thinking and Design RSD10: NOVEMBER 2-6, 2021 WE ARE PLAYING WITH TENSIONS ONLINE & ON-CAMPUS | THE NETHERLANDS
Sorry for all the CAPITALS. Designers!
RELATING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN
RSD Symposium – Relating Systems Thinking and Design
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
RELATING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN
A FOUNDATION FOR THE EMERGENCE OF RESEARCH AND INQUIRY
NOVEMBER 2-6, 2021
WE ARE PLAYING WITH TENSIONS
ONLINE & ON-CAMPUS | THE NETHERLANDS
Human Learning Systems: The Role of National Government in Systems Innovation – YouTube
Human Learning Systems: The Role of National Government in Systems Innovation
Human Learning Systems: The Role of National Government in Systems Innovation – YouTube
Peter Checkland on the origins of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) – YouTube
Peter Checkland on the origins of SSM
Peter Checkland on the origins of SSM – YouTube
Via Liam Mahon, from Kenneth Tyler who said:
peter checkland
“in the human world you are constantly in a heremeutic cycle between ideas and the experience of using them.”
the the church say amen
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Psychedelics for systems change: could drugs help us save the planet? | openDemocracy – Jules Peck (2020)
Psychedelics for systems change: could drugs help us save the planet? After being forced underground in the 1960s, today psychedelic drugs are having a renaissance. Scientists are only beginning to understand their transformative potential. Jules Peck 15 February 2020, 10.16am
Psychedelics for systems change: could drugs help us save the planet? | openDemocracy
via Systems Change Finland and Mikael Seppala
#35: System Effects update – by Luke Craven – Pig on the Tracks
#35: System Effects update
#35: System Effects update – by Luke Craven – Pig on the Tracks
Luke says:
It has been a while since I have talked about System Effects—my pet system mapping methodology/software—and the impact that it has been making in the world. I fondly refer to System Effects as my side hustle, but I have not been giving it anywhere as much attention recently as it deserves, despite some very exciting developments.
For newer readers, this is also an opportunity to learn a bit more about the methodology, experiment with the software, and see what both are capable of.
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Over the weekend, we’ve clocked 50 use-cases of the methodology since I started actively proselytising about it in late 2016. I’m tremendously proud of that reach in a relatively short time. While a good chunk of those use cases stay hidden away in internal documentation, it’s heartening to see that many others are being shared publicly, including…
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Principles for Ecosystem Governance – NetworkWeaver
Principles For Ecosystem Governance FREE The principles articulated in this resource aim to provide a framework for thinking about infusing societal values into governance. offered by Societal Platform & Aapti Institute
Principles for Ecosystem Governance – NetworkWeaver
Principles For Ecosystem Governance
FREE
The principles articulated in this resource aim to provide a framework for thinking about infusing societal values into governance.
offered by Societal Platform & Aapti Institute
GENESYS – New Approaches for Economic Challenges – OECD
Government Economists for New Economics and Systems Science
GENESYS – New Approaches for Economic Challenges
via Dr Sharon Zivkovic on LinkedIn
The OECD Government Economists for New Economics and Systems Science (GENESYS) is being launched on the 4th November. “It is now widely recognised that reductionist, sectoral, ad hoc and short-term policies are inadequate to face the systemic structural issues which threaten the future. New analytical and systems-oriented approaches are required both to understand and to manage the connected systemic issues of the modern world.”
https://lnkd.in/gv2nBNBC
Building community health – through systems convening and supporting staff self-awareness 5pm London time, 14 October 2021 | Q Community #systemsconvening
Building community health – through systems convening and supporting staff self-awareness (5pm London time)
Building community health – through systems convening and supporting staff self-awareness (5pm London time) | Q Community
Building community health – through systems convening and supporting staff self-awareness (5pm London time)
Learn about the role of Systems Convening in a pioneering community health project in Yorkshire – which used Mindfulness and more to support changes in behaviour and awareness.
14 Oct 2021
17:00 – 18:00
Following on from the book launch of ‘Systems Convening – a crucial form of leadership for the 21st century‘ (free download here), we’re bringing to Q a series of follow-up Zooms delving deeper into the case studies featured in the book.
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This first one features Q member Esther Hall, who will share her work on a Sport England-funded community health development programme in Withernsea, Yorkshire, that used a Mindfulness/adult development programme to help staff be more self-aware, hold more complex views of the world, hear past their own agendas, especially in a community setting. All the things that one would associate with waking up to our later stages of adult development. (Is this the ‘inner journey’ of systems convener?).
Esther ran a programme developed by University of Aberystwyth Mindfulness researcher Dr Rachel Lilley to help with this inner shift. She will share details about the real impact it created, and the interesting dynamics that emerged.
Esther will also highlight the role of ‘Systems Convening’ in the project – and we hope to be able to briefly compare her experience with the ‘Systems Convening’ efforts in another Sport England-funded pilot project in the same series (in Greater Manchester).
This one hour Zoom will explore:
1) Why we brought adult development into this community development project
2) Participant discussion: an opportunity to discuss our experience around building staff self-awareness
3) Dr Lilley’s programme and and the effects it generated in participants
4) Changes to the project resulting from Covid
Esther is the convener of the Q group Closing the gap: developing improvers for a complex world.
Homeotely – by John Dobbin – Post Bureaucracy
Homeotely Whole-maintaining systems and organisations John Dobbin
Homeotely – by John Dobbin – Post Bureaucracy
Homeotely
Whole-maintaining systems and organisations
“One cannot help being struck by the way in which the cells in an organism not only cooperate but cooperate in a specific direction towards the fulfilment and maintenance of the type of the particular organism which they constitute.” — Jan Smuts
One of the most remarkable aspects of natural systems is their ability to work together autonomously to maintain the critical order of the larger systems to which they belong. Components appear to share the common goal of maintaining the stability of their encompassing system, and in doing so maintain their own stability.
We see this phenomenon occurring at every level. Organelles work together autonomously to maintain the critical order of a cell. Cells work together autonomously to maintain the critical order of an organ. Organs work together autonomously to maintain the critical order of a body. Many different species work together autonomously to maintain the critical order of an ecosystem. And the Earth’s ecosystems work together autonomously to maintain the critical order of the biosphere.
Because there was no adequate word in English to describe this whole-maintaining characteristic of systems, environmentalist and philosopher Teddy Goldsmith coined the term Homeotely — from the greek homo (same) and telos (goal) — to describe this fundamental principle that underlies all healthy natural systems.1
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Homeotely – by John Dobbin – Post Bureaucracy
How firefly flashes illuminate the physics of complex systems
Orit Peleg
Solving the mystery of how and why fireflies flash in time can illuminate the physics of complex systems
Read the full article at: aeon.co
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