This video is an excerpt from the 1992 American Society for Cybernetics Conference about the cybernetics of Herbert Brün and Humberto Maturana, organized by then president Rodney Donaldson.

link:

Humberto Maturana; The Biology of Love, Language and Languaging – YouTube

Dec 2024 | News & Notes

RSD13 in Oslo, online, and RSDX was a unique experience lasting over two weeks and presenting hundreds of presentations and over 1000 joining.

The onsite event at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design was a unique one-track event with no recording or streaming. Except the keynotes were recorded. Here we present the three keynotes.

RSD13 OSLO KEYNOTESDEC 2024 | NEWS & NOTESRSD13 in Oslo, online, and RSDX was a unique experience lasting over two weeks and presenting hundreds of presentations and over 1000 joining.The onsite event at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design was a unique one-track event with no recording or streaming. Except the keynotes were recorded. Here we present the three keynotes.

RSD13 Oslo Keynotes

Material drawn from the workbooks prepared for SCiO (Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the systems thinking practitioner professional body) for facilitation, workshop design, and large group facilitation sessions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OdGHAOcehnAurCc00vcF_vnA4N8L4UUynDhbD5J1yPc/edit?tab=t.0

Posted in the systems thinking network group on LinkedIn by Gene Bellinger

After almost 50 years of creating models I sort of figured I had it pretty much sorted out… And? https://bra.in/7qaonE Then one day I was presenting one of my incomprehensible models when I stopped and asked myself “What does it mean?” I know what it said, though what did it mean was a very different question.

I can use any modeling software to develop a model of what I think I know or understand, though none of them are any help at all with what I don’t know I don’t know. Last fall I started investigating the extent to which AI might help me build better models and help me understand some of the ones I’ve already developed.

I found what evolved from this endeavor quite amazing. Not only is AI allowing me to develop better models it is also allowing me to understand insights and leverage points and models that used to take weeks and months now usually only take a couple hours.

On Wed Jan 22nd at 11:00 EST (New York) for 90 min. During this workshop, I’ll explain how I trained AI to help me develop better models in a fraction of the time. If you register for this workshop I’ll send the Zoom link 1 day before and 1 hr before the seminar.

* Register: https://lnkd.in/eM-iTvhv
* Example Model: https://kumu.io/-/991409

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Aidan Ward

GentlySerious

The veil of numbersAidan Ward·FollowingPublished inGentlySerious

The veil of numbers. Numbers are now mostly used to mislead… | by Aidan Ward | GentlySerious | Jan, 2025 | Medium

Dan Davies

Jan 13, 2025

VOL. VIII: CYBERNETICSTaming the unaccountability machine“Public choice cybernetics” for the 21st century.DAN DAVIESJAN 13, 2025

Taming the unaccountability machine – by Dan Davies

Rest of the publication via:

https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/

Dr Michael C Jackson OBE

Emeritus Professor, University of Hull, UK

link:

‘Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner’s Guide’ (Wiley, 2024)

https://www.patternlanguage.com/apl/direct-159.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Conciser:

https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list

MAY 22-23, 2025 | NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO | MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

SUBMISSIONS: [https://anticipation.philcomp.org](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fanticipation.philcomp.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0VEHQWNhL_M0roATyMuogAD55Es1l0rP8yyBIKuYp_Psr-lJqiqj_LZH4_aem_9FxptNnP_dAl0NoUH_FAvA&h=AT2TrmOEt03rw2OpgnujUqEnMhLDiHvXDakotYOMvPkEY-rL1ZFYZ5POSEcMucvDc-840Vg78eoWRiz2N1JwMgJf1DRLuS60RSAYMsyLXOYUIX-5SWf0vkM1nKwiy9PITGgPXzFxBlhwE5RfOK26dLR0Gw&__tn__=-UK*F)

May 22-23, 2025 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico, via its Research Group on Philosophy of Computing, is proud to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Anticipatory Systems and Rosennean Complexity.

Inaugurated by Dr. Robert Rosen, Anticipatory Systems Theory deals with how systems with the ability to anticipate model and act on future states. This conference aims to address anticipation in its many forms, including its philosophical, biological, cognitive, and technological dimensions. This year (2025) will also mark the 40th anniversary of the original publication of Rosen’s “Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical, and Methodological Foundations”, an occasion that we shall celebrate in our conference.

This conference is focused on Robert Rosen’s ideary and notions of life, complexity, modeling, and mind. For the International Conference on Anticipation, first organized by Dr. Roberto Poli on 2015, please refer to this link.

In this first edition, attendance will be free of charge.

We welcome contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

Philosophy of Science: Exploring the epistemological and metaphysical underpinnings of anticipatory systems, as well as their current and future role in scientific explanation.

Cognitive Science: Investigating the role of anticipation in contemporary, non-mechanistic cognitive science.

Theoretical Biology: Understanding life through the lenses of relational biology and Rosen’s anticipatory systems.

Foundational Mathematics of Relational Biology: Advancing formal frameworks for understanding organisms.

Complex Systems: Examining the role of anticipation in dynamic, nonlinear systems, as well as in emergent behaviour.

Medicine: Applying anticipation to predictive diagnostics, personalized treatment, and healthcare systems.

Artificial Intelligence: Studying anticipatory artificial intelligent systems, as well as their ethical and practical implications.

Climate Crisis: Leveraging anticipatory systems theory as strategy to address challenges related to climate change, including mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability.

Presentation Modalities

Participants may choose from the following presentation formats:

Oral Presentations: 25-minute talks followed by a 5-minute Q&A session, designed for sharing significant findings or conceptual advancements.

Panel Discussions: Collaborative sessions featuring 3-5 panelists addressing a specific topic related to anticipation, with a moderator facilitating audience interaction.

Workshops: Interactive, hands-on sessions aimed at exploring specific tools, methods, or approaches to anticipation in depth.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025

Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2025.

Venue & accommodation

This conference will be an in-person event to be celebrated in the Central Campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City (Mexico). Nearby hotels and other accommodation recomendations will be sent to all accepted authors.

Proceedings book

We will gladly organize a collaborative volume to be published in an open access journal if the participating authors show enough interest. This will be discussed during the conference.

SUBMISSIONS: [https://anticipation.philcomp.org](https://anticipation.philcomp.org/…)

1st International Conference on Anticipation

Short Course #3: Applied Systems Science for Equity and Injury and Violence Prevention

Accelerating equity necessitates elevating and integrating empirical evidence, practice-based evidence, and lived experience into our research, practice, and policies. The success of injury and violence prevention (IVP) is predicated on multisectoral collaboration; yet facilitating a process that includes rigor and allows for the development of trust, consensus building, and developing a shared language across diverse sectors (e.g., law enforcement, school system, hospitals, universities) is difficult.

Systems thinking is an approach that underscores the value of diverse perspectives to understand the social and structural drivers of an outcome of interest. Two helpful systems tools to achieve this are group model building (GMB) and causal loop diagramming (CLD). GMB is a qualitative, collaborative, systems thinking method that allows participants to collectively discuss complex problems and build resulting qualitative and quantitative models describing interrelationships among multilevel factors driving the problems over time. The collaborative nature of GMB allows for cultural responsiveness to be incorporated into the discussions. The discussions, which reference data and lived experience, are then translated into qualitative CLDs to identify potential intervention points to prevent and disrupt IVP.

Through a mixture of hands-on learning and didactic presentation, this course will teach participants how to use systems thinking to engage diverse perspectives in their efforts to achieve collective goals of equity and IVP. More specifically, participants will learn and apply the fundamentals of GMB and collectively construct a CLD.

Instructors: Belinda-Rose Young, Sable Watson, University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center

link:

SAVIR 2025 Annual Conference

Virtual Event

irtual Book Tour: Multisolving – Creating Systems Change in a Fractured WorldJANUARY 15 @ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ESTVirtual Event

Virtual Book Tour: Multisolving – Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World – System Dynamics Society

Tutorials: Basics | Links | Subsystems

Launch SOCKit!

SOCKit is an interactive, dynamic, web-based tool for creating and exploring concept maps. Use simple, intuitive gestures to add concepts and link them together. The whole concept map responds when you move things around, making it easy to rearrange and organize, and it works great on mobile devices.

Concepts are connected by labeled links with arrows. Related concepts can be grouped into subsystems, which helps users divide complex systems into more manageable chunks. Subsystems also express the limits of the system being explored, and help to promote “systems thinking”. 

Diagrams can be downloaded as .socme files, and later reloaded into the SOCKit web page. Diagrams can also be exported as graphics, in SVG and PNG formats.

The System-Oriented Concept Map Extension, or SOCME, is an approach to concept mapping that promotes and facilitates systems thinking. SOCKit’s “subsystem” features are designed with SOCMEs in mind.

SOCKit was developed as part of IUPAC Project 2020-014-3-050.

SOCKitAn easy-to-use tool for creating and exploring concept-maps in your browser.Tutorials: Basics | Links | Subsystems

SOCKit: SOCME Online Construction Kit – KCVS