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October 19, 2024

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Systems do not exist..? – Educati

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Hosted By Jocko S.

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If you’re thinking, “Complexity and systems thinking, what are you talking about?”, our guest has some thoughts. In this wide-ranging talk, Dr. Michael C. Jackson will discuss the history of systems thinking, how systems thinking addresses complexity, some valuable ways of looking at systems translated into forms of practical action, and current examples of systems thinking in action in different sectors.

And if that’s not enough for you, we’ll open the floor for a conversation about the intersection of complexity and systems thinking. We are fortunate to be joined by Dr. Jackson, the leading figure in the development of critical systems thinking and practice. So get ready!

Bio
Michael is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull and MD of Systems Research Ltd. He graduated from Oxford University, gained an MA from Lancaster University and a PhD from Hull, and has worked in the civil service, in academia and as a consultant. Between 1999 and 2011, Mike was Dean of Hull University Business School, leading it to triple-crown accreditation. Mike has been President of the International Federation for Systems Research and the International Society for the Systems Sciences. In 2011 Mike was awarded an OBE for services to higher education and business.

In 2017 he received the Beale Medal of the UK Operational Research Society for ‘a sustained contribution over many years to the theory, practice, and philosophy of Operational Research’. In 2022, he received the Pioneer Award of the International Council on Systems Engineering for ‘the development of the foundations of systems engineering as author, educator and intellectual leader in systems thinking’. Mike is known as the leading figure in the development of ‘Critical Systems Thinking’ – a topic on which he has published ten books and over 150 articles. His latest book, Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner’s Guide was published by Wiley in July 2024. He is Co-Chair of the UK Government Office for Science/SCiO ‘Systems Thinking Working Group’.

The Complexity Lounge

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM GMT

Dr. Michael C. Jackson – Systems Thinking & The Management of Complexity, Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Philip E. Agre
Department of Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90095-1520
USApagre@ucla.edu
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/This paper appeared in a slightly different form in a special issue of the Stanford Humanities Review, entitled “Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities“, edited by Guven Guzeldere and Stefano Franchi. The official citation is Stanford Humanities Review 4(2), 1995, pages 1-19.

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The Soul Gained and Lost

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/shr.html

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

Description of the ‘flash of realisation’ of the breakthrough

Ronald Kline telling the same story

Oral history: interview

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Harold_S._Black

Black’s 1934 article in The Bell System Technical Journal

Alternative link for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iFrxyJAtJ7U

Harold Black and the Invention of the Negative Feedback Amplifier

Harold Black and the Invention of the Negative Feedback Amplifier – AT&T Archives – YouTube

h/t Steve Hales

Systems Science: “Thought About Thought”

For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003. 

His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”

This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.

When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.

A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.

John N. WarfieldSystems ScienceSoftwareBooksCatalogCollectionsAboutContactLog inSystems Science: “Thought About Thought”For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003. His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.

Systems Science

https://www.jnwarfield.com/systems-science.html

h/t Jason Hu

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them.

By Amanda Gefter

Contributing Writer

September 25, 2024

When Johnny Wheeler was 4 years old, splashing in the bathtub in Youngstown, Ohio, he looked up at his mother and asked, “What happens when you get to the end of things?” The question would haunt him for the rest of his life. What happens when you get to the bottom of space? What happens when you get to the edge of time? It would lead him to suggest that space-time can’t be the true fabric of the universe. It would compel him, even in his final days, to search for some deeper reality beneath space-time and to wonder whether, somehow, that reality loops back to us.

continues in source…

John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality | Quanta Magazine

[A good intro]

Systemic Design Association

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Birger Sevaldson [dipl NCAD PhD] is a professor at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Institute of Design. He is trained as an interior architect and furniture designer. He has been practising in various fields of design, including architecture and interior design, furniture design, industrial design and art-based projects. He has a PhD in creative design computing and has been researching systems thinking in design since 2006. He is central in the development of Systems Oriented Design, and his research focus is to develop systems oriented design thinking and practice for meeting the increased challenges of globalisation and the need for sustainability. He publishes on various themes, including systems oriented design, creativity, and research by design. Birger is a member of the council of the Design Research Society and is the founder of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposia and a co-founder of the Systemic Design Association. From systemsorienteddesign.net/birger-sevaldson/

About Systemic Design – YouTube

Marija Roglic

Action research scholar in neo-endogenous management and systems thinking

October 11, 2024

Reflections on Systems Mapping and Wicked Problems in Food SystemsMarija RoglicAction research scholar in neo-endogenous management and systems thinkingOctober 11, 2024

Reflections on Systems Mapping and Wicked Problems in Food Systems | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflections-systems-mapping-wicked-problems-food-marija-roglic-gkg2f/?trackingId=%2BcZtPqlYNJIl46Q3Qp%2BZrQ%3D%3D

My comment:

• cross-posted to the discussion on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/harishjose_on-alethic-unfolding-in-systems-thinking-activity-7251284335830441984-o5Xx
• oh, bravo, this is great!
• Links for me to concepts of ‘affordance’ but ‘unveiling of affordance’, to the insight of a joke or the unveiling of a puzzle or cracking a Bongard Game (see https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/06/09/a-first-lesson-in-meta-rationality-meaningness/), and in the way you talk about unconcealment and concealment, of course to Macluhan’s Tetrads https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/04/22/marshall-macluhans-tetrad-of-media-effects/
• Oh, and specifically on this problem in ‘transport systems’, this brilliant piece from Strong Towns https://chosen-path.org/2022/04/27/why-cant-we-talk-the-same-language-when-its-so-important/ (well it’s a podcast of a recording of a US City Council meeting but trust me, it works)
• Worth saying also in relation to ‘meta-rationality’ that all forms (I think) of ‘adult development’ could also be seen as ways of raising our awareness of this foundation of reality and our ability to embody and understand – and even ‘model’ – these different contextualities. (As is, for example, Donna Meadows’ ‘places to intervene in a system’, and Mike has already on Linkedin drawn attention to

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/09/15/of-mental-models-and-internal-representations/?page_id=2602

Systems Soundbites

Thoughts – Systems Soundbites

We’re growing! Applications for Assistant Professor Position Now Open.

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in complex systems science.

Application review begins October 14, 2024.

We’re growing! Applications for Assistant Professor Position Now Open. | U-M LSA Center for the Study of Complex Systems

https://lsa.umich.edu/cscs/news-events/all-news/search-news/complex-systems-is-hiring-0.html

• Editor científico
• Igor Perko Alfonso Reyes Alvarado
• Autor
• Ángela Espinosa Salazar José Pérez Ríos Mulej Matjaz Amna Potocnik Mulej Matjaz Simona Sarotar Zizek Sergio Barile Marialuisa Saviano Francesco Caputo Markus Schwaninger Nelson Lammoglia Camilo Serna Zamora Jorge Villalobos Diana Marcela Barbosa Maldonado Maria Paula Benavides Cortés Ana María Guerra Bernal Martha María Blanco Silva Juan Alejandro Valdivia Felipe Montés Jiménez Frank Stowell Clive Holtham Ray Ison Carlos Senna Figueiredo Germán Bula Escobar Sandro Schlindwein Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek Rebecca Michell Herron Louis Klein Class-Otto Wene Gerard de Zeeuw Osvaldo García de la Cerda Hernán López Garay

Libro Addressing challenges of an uncertain world: A CyberSystemic approach Festschrift for professor Raúl Espejo, ISBN 9789587544398, Ediciones Unibagué – ASEUC