Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation — Future Histories International https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s04/e03-rodrigo-nunes-on-ecologies-of-organization-and-democratic-transformation/
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SRBS 2026
How might #SystemsThinking education be authentically redesigned? #WendyGregory + #GeraldMidgley reflect on history of MA Management Systems 1992-2003 at uniofhull.bsky.social “Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design”, SRBS 2026, doi.org/10.1002/sres…
Evaluation is Never Neutral or Independent: Reflections on Valuing, Complexity and Systems Thinking
Evaluation is Never Neutral or Independent: Reflections on Valuing, Complexity and Systems Thinking https://thesystemsthinkingapprentice.substack.com/p/evaluation-is-never-neutral-or-independent?r=81ic5y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
The Lost history of Cybernetics. General Intellect Unit.
June and Kyle from the General intellect Unit podcast join Mia to explain what cybernetics is, its history in the Chilean revolution, and how we can use it to build a better socialist world.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-lost-history-of-cybernetics-92769653/
After Chile: A Second Chance for a Technological Revolution in Latin America – Ben Wood (2026) on LinkedIn on the story, and Víctor Ganón’s Metaphorum webinar (link to video included)
After Chile: A Second Chance for a Technological Revolution in Latin America
Ben Wood, PMP
Project Consultant | Builder | Systems Thinker
June 5, 2026
On September 11, 1973, fighter jets bombed the presidential palace in Santiago. By the end of the day, President Salvador Allende was dead, and the future Stafford Beer had been helping to build for Chile appeared to die with him.
Project Cybersyn was over, and Beer’s dream that cybernetics might help humanity govern itself with greater intelligence, freedom, and dignity appeared destined for the dustbin of history.
Following Chile, Beer withdrew from public life and disappeared into the mountains of Wales for the next twelve years.
Until a letter arrived from Uruguay, from a man named Victor Ganón.
“Our country would like to offer you a second chance in Latin America to implement your ideas and establish a real-time control system for Uruguay. Would you accept it?”
Beer wrote back immediately:
“I have been waiting for 12 years for just such a letter…There is only one possible answer: YES!”
Links:
Metaphorum Webinar:
https://youtu.be/CvVXpD4w5zw?si=8JStPSBmo4B6gEwe
Victor’s book:
https://books.apple.com/au/book/urucib-uruguay-cibernetico-successfully-implementing/id6746205803
Victor’s Article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-021-01351-5
After Chile: A Second Chance for a Technological Revolution in Latin America | LinkedIn
RIP Edgar Morin
RIP Jim Rutt (with John Krakauer on Why Neuroscience Needs Behavior and Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D)
Very sad to hear the news this morning that Jim Rutt died on May 27, 2026. Official announcement:
https://www.obaughfuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-jim-rutt
He was a big character and someone deeply involved with complexity, a Boomer Uncle or Grand-uncle par excellence, I think, and someone I listened to regularly with amusement and frustration – but a true, actual, explorer and thinker, open to challenge and deeply learning focused. Just yesterday I’d listened to and sent myself the link for this excellenct interview with John Krakauer, which aligns with so much of my thinking on neuroscience:
https://jimrutt.substack.com/p/ep-339-john-krakauer-on-why-neuroscience
And then I was pleased to see that his final published podcast was with Tyson Yunkaporta, his opposite in many ways – yet also someone with many similarities, finding commonality, who pays umprompted and heartfelt tribute to what he has learned from Jim, and which is openly reciprocated, and explored:
https://jimrutt.substack.com/p/ep-345-worldviews-tyson-yunkaporta
ChatGPT says I should summarise his life as:
“Jim Rutt occupied a rare position at the intersection of technology, complexity science and public discourse. As chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, an internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Game B, and host of The Jim Rutt Show, he spent decades creating conversations across disciplines and communities that otherwise might never have met. His enduring contribution wasn’t a single theory or institution but a relentless curiosity about how complex systems evolve and how humans might learn to navigate them more wisely.”
That’s pretty good actually, he was big and bold but also humble, a capitalist but also a convenor, a complexity thinker but always critical. Other links:
Longer biography
https://archania.org/p/individuals/internet-personalities/jim-rutt
Full backlog of his podcast
And his substack
https://jimrutt.substack.com/notes
And a recent interview with him:
https://blog.thomas.cr/p/the-next-10000-years-a-roadmap-for?hide_intro_popup=true
A typical bombacious perspective, and responses
A tribute from Jonathan Rowson
https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/howdy-on-the-other-side
And I’ll leave the last word to Jim
Problematique Dialogue 2026 retrospective – Ing (2026)
May 29, 2026 daviding
Problematique Dialogue 2026 retrospective – Coevolving Innovations
Bet hedging (biology)
Shared by https://x.com/male_leo_xxvi in a cybernetics chat
Why we don’t get complexity: Stafford Beer, ‘requisite variety’ and systems thinking
Why we don’t get complexity: Stafford Beer, ‘requisite variety’ and systems thinking. Claire Hartnell. https://open.substack.com/pub/clairejhartnell/p/why-we-dont-get-complexity-stafford?r=slo6&utm_medium=ios
Machine Intelligence is not Artificial – Part 7
Machine Intelligence is not Artificial – Part 7. Sean Manion. https://seanmanion.substack.com/p/machine-intelligence-is-not-artificial-d42?r=slo6&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article. Front. Syst. Neurosci., 24 March 2022
HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article
Front. Syst. Neurosci., 24 March 2022
Volume 16 – 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.768201
Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds
Michael Levin 1,2*
1. Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States
2. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Abstract
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software. These advances are disrupting familiar concepts in the philosophy of mind, and require new ways of thinking about and comparing truly diverse intelligences, whose composition and origin are not like any of the available natural model species. In this Perspective, I introduce TAME—Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere—a framework for understanding and manipulating cognition in unconventional substrates. TAME formalizes a non-binary (continuous), empirically-based approach to strongly embodied agency. TAME provides a natural way to think about animal sentience as an instance of collective intelligence of cell groups, arising from dynamics that manifest in similar ways in numerous other substrates. When applied to regenerating/developmental systems, TAME suggests a perspective on morphogenesis as an example of basal cognition. The deep symmetry between problem-solving in anatomical, physiological, transcriptional, and 3D (traditional behavioral) spaces drives specific hypotheses by which cognitive capacities can increase during evolution. An important medium exploited by evolution for joining active subunits into greater agents is developmental bioelectricity, implemented by pre-neural use of ion channels and gap junctions to scale up cell-level feedback loops into anatomical homeostasis. This architecture of multi-scale competency of biological systems has important implications for plasticity of bodies and minds, greatly potentiating evolvability. Considering classical and recent data from the perspectives of computational science, evolutionary biology, and basal cognition, reveals a rich research program with many implications for cognitive science, evolutionary biology, regenerative medicine, and artificial intelligence.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/systems-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.768201/full
The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates). Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates) | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/82eaef70-29ac-0136-4d81-0050569601ca-d
On Our Own Terms: Systems change through Lived Experience Leadership
On Our Own Terms: Systems change through Lived Experience Leadership. Morgan & Co. https://morganandco.au/project/on-our-own-terms/
Systems Practice as a Practice of the Middle Voice
Systems Practice as a Practice of the Middle Voice. Philippe Vandenbroeck. https://philippevandenbroeck.medium.com/systems-practice-as-a-practice-of-the-middle-voice-f89d81509e1e
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