See also Boulton’s website and blog at:

October 29, 2024

By Jean Boulton

Insights into the science of complexity – Integration and Implementation Insights

h/t David Ing

Ison, R. L. (2024). Exploring the conceptual and practical affordances of duality and dualism. In: Reyes, A. and Perko, I. eds. Addressing challenges of an uncertain world: A CyberSystemic approach. Ibagué, Colombia: Ediciones Unibagué, pp. 335–364.

URL: https://repositorio.unibague.edu.co/entities/publi…

Abstract

The concepts of dualism and duality concern the nature and/or quality of relationship at the heart of ‘either/or’ or ‘both/and’ distinctions, in any pairing such as predator/prey, mind/body or subjective/objective. This chapter, framed as a systemic inquiry, is written to celebrate the contributions of Raul Espejo to cybersystemic praxis. This inquiry arises because of the overinvestment in the pursuit and use of dualisms at the expense of dualities; it concerns how two key concepts within the cybersystemic lexicon are used (and perhaps abused) in the conduct of situated, embodied practice. As a cybersystemic educator and a designer of learning systems, there is a need to appreciate how each concept is performable as in a performer living their choreography. The main inquiry question is: How does an aware STiP (systems thinking in practice) practitioner practice to deframe dualisms and offer or enact reframings as dualities? In response the case for a cybersystemic praxeology is made, drawing on the design and enactment of learning systems within the stip postgraduate program (for mature students) at the Open University (UK).

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Open Research Online

Viability, Behaviour and The Viable System Model

Viability and the VSM – Beckford Consulting

The Cornell Systems Summit will be held at the four-diamond Statler Hotel on the Cornell Campus, and packed with renowned speakers, informative sessions, roundtable discussions, and ample time to network and meet new collegues from around the globe.

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Schedule | Systems Engineering

It me!

This week’s free to attend International Society for the Systems Sciences mini-symposia event features Benjamin P. Taylor

Direct Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gv6HUcYs

Saturday 26th October 2024
9 AM New York/ Eastern US time, 2pm UK, 1pm UTC
How can we engage positive dynamics of differentiation and integration in developing systems / cybernetics / complexity?

Benjamin will introduce the four organisational dynamics (and their systems | cybernetics | complexity roots), their pathologies, diagnosis, and associated prescriptions:

• Segment – separating out into teams and specialisms
• Blend – coming together to work effectively as one unit
• Empower – each person to use their specific skills and talents
• Harmonise – bringing everyone together to focus on a common goal

He will then discuss how we might apply these to our own extended field, and invite discussion on whether and how we can use these concepts to positively influence more effective organisation.

Benjamin Taylor, is a dedicated amateur in the systems | cybernetics | complexity space. He is on the board of SCiO (systems and complexity in organisation), the systems practice professional body, teaches on the level 7 systems thinking practice apprenticeship, and at times has been the noodle in every soup in the field… he runs a network consultancy in the UK, RedQuadrant, and a social enterprise, the Public Service Transformation Academy. He regularly blogs and writes in the space – all links at antlerboy.com

Direct Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gv6HUcYs

Multidisciplinary Insights for Tech. Practitioners, Executives and Entrepreneurs!

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October 19, 2024

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Systems do not exist..? – Educati

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Hosted By Jocko S.

Details

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