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SCiO videos from SysPrac25 conference
Andrea Weierich Sept25 at SysPrac
Ing & Khan Sept25 at SysPrac25
Xavier Matieni Sept25 at SysPrac25
Ray Ison KN Sept25 at SysPrac 25
Jackson & Hoverstadt Sept25 at SysPrac 25
Hämäläinen & Korhonen Sept25 at SysPrac 25
Jane Graham Sept25 at SysPrac 25
MacCormac & Abbott Sept25 at SysPrac25
Anne Gambles Sept25 at SysPrac 25
Kevin Collins Sept25 at SysPrac25
Martin Reynolds Sept25 at SysPrac25
Chris Abbott Sept24 at SysPrac25
Gary Kass Sept25 SysPrac25
James Stauch Sept25 at SysPrac25
Ed Straw Sept25 at SysPrac25
Metaphorum – The Viable System Model in 1000 words
George Por – three introductory workshops of the research seminar on Connecting Islands of Coherence, Aided by Co-evolving Human and Wisdom-Fostering AI Agents
[One of them already happened, sorry!]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ssd7lxeFDdeQTLjq9Wesd7fKuogckrV2Lu3L-o9xgA4/edit?tab=t.0
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ssd7lxeFDdeQTLjq9Wesd7fKuogckrV2Lu3L-o9xgA4/edit?tab=t.0
Clearer Thinking podcast with Spencer Greenberg Episode 281: A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)
[I’ve always really liked Slime Mold Time Mold and their brand of Extremely Online also meshes with the sort of fun creativity I quite like and that has often been found in the better sort of systems | complexity | cybernetics spaces – a pseudonymous collective blog written by ’20 mice in a trenchcoat’ taking ideas seriously.
Their ‘new paradigm’ for psychology research is… a cybernetic paradigm! Though I can’t help feeling that ‘entities and rules’ is more of a transitional object paradigm myself…]
CLEARER THINKING
with Spencer Greenberg
the podcast about ideas that matter
Episode 281: A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)
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September 25, 2025View transcript →
What changes when psychology stops naming traits and starts naming parts – can “entities and rules” turn fuzzy labels into testable mechanisms? If the mind is a web of governors with set points, what exactly is being controlled – and how do error signals become feelings? Are hunger, fear, and status-seeking all negative-feedback problems, and where do outliers like anger or awe fit? What would count as disconfirming evidence for a cybernetic view – useful constraint or unfalsifiable epicycle? Could a “parliament of drives” explain why identical situations yield different choices? And how would we measure the votes? Do abstractions like the Big Five help, or do they hide the machine under the hood? How many rules do we need before prediction beats metaphor? And could a new paradigm help make psychology a more mature and cumulative science?
SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD is a mad science hive mind with a blog. If you believe the rumors, it’s run by 20 rats in a trenchcoat. You can reach them at slimemoldtimemold@gmail.com, follow them on twitter at @mold_time, and read their blog at slimemoldtimemold.com
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Pacing Changes with Living Systems | Zaid Khan | SysPrac25
TODAY – Christopher Mowles – Complexity and Change – online at The Complexity Loung September 23, 2025, 5:00PM London time
Hosted By Tiani J. and 2 others
Details
The Lounge loves to present different approaches and aspects of complexity science, and we are delighted to welcome Professor Christopher Mowles.
Chris will give a brief history of his research community, the Complexity and Management Centre at the University of Hertfordshire, which has been going for 25 years, working with a radical interpretation of the complexity sciences. He will briefly explain the key ideas of the perspective of perspectives called complex responsive processes of relating, which adopts a non-teleological view of change. That is to say that there may be things we aspire to, but even our aspirations will evolve and change in our interactions with each other and the world. To take the implications from the complexity sciences seriously means treating the future as radically open and impervious to our grids and frameworks. He will go on to explore what all of this might mean for practice in the increasingly dark times we face, a practice he has begun to think of as hopeful pessimism.
Bio
Professor Chris Mowles has been director of the Doctor of Management programme (DMan) at Hertfordshire Business School, UK, for the last 15 years. The program works psychodynamically with insights from the complexity sciences, process sociology and philosophy, and group analytic theory to inform practice.
Chris’ publications include: a four-volume Complexity and Management series published by Routledge, with titles addressing leadership, consultancy, the public sector and research methods. In addition he published Complexity: a key idea for business and Society (2021); Managing in Uncertainty: complexity and the paradoxes of everyday organizational life (2015) also published by Routledge and the 7th Edition of Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics: the challenge of complexity to managing organizations, written with Ralph Stacey.
He teaches regularly at the Copenhagen Business School and has taught in other Danish universities (Aalborg, SDU) and in the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as UK universities.
Chris started out in international development, working in the Middle East with Oxfam. Thereafter, he worked as an organizational consultant in China for the British government, in the Middle East for the UN, in many countries in Asia and Africa on EU-funded projects, and in the UK in voluntary, public, and private sectors. He is an associate member of the Institute for Group Analysis.
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Please note the time slot- this is an afternoon event for those of you on EST (12:00 pm to 2:00 pm).
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM London time
Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 36 – Seeing Through The Net
[Lots and lots of systems | complexity | cybernetics thinking in this, some very contemporary challenges – and even a slightly throwaway direct reference to cybernetics]
In this new, technological age, Alan Watts explains how seeing reality via only one perspective can lead to a fragmented view of the world; instead, he encourages listeners to adopt both the analytical and the organic.
https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-36-seeing-through-the-net/
Slowing Down to See the System: Lessons from the 2025 Banff Systems Summit
Linh Bui — Mount Royal University
Posted: June 10, 2025
Harish’s Notebook – Rethinking Purpose: When Organizations Stop Having and People Start Being… (Jose, 2025)
Future Histories International Podcast – Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life (2025)
[The thing about socialists – or should I say communists? – is that they *really* think about things. This episode will provide ample ground for those who detest or love socialism and/or socialists, but is a great example and very systems and cybeneretics focused. And just *look* at those references!]
Jason W. Moore discusses the problematic history of the nature-society divide, his alternative world-ecology approach and the challenges of building socialism.
Free mini-books about dialogic practice now available – Chris Corrigan
PreAccident Investigation Podcast / No Way Out Podcast crossover – Todd Conklin on Reframing Safety
Both podcasts excellent, this is a good survey of ‘Tiny Todd Conklin joins the No Way Out podcast to explore Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), high-reliability organizing, and how safety emerges from complex systems rather than individual mistakes.
‘They critique traditional investigations, surveys, and risk matrices, and discuss practical ideas for building capacity, worker agency, psychological safety, and resilient operations.’
PreAccident Investigation Podcast
PAPood -563 – Human Performance, Not Human Error — Todd Conklin on Reframing Safety
September 13, 2025
The Subtle Fascism of Feedback – Yunkaporta (2022) on his podcast The Other Others
THE TERRIBLE TIME OF DAY – Bill Mollison( 1981)
Edited from the Transcript of the Permaculture Design Course The Rural Education Center, Wilton, NH USA
[Introduced to me by Will Carey who manages the excellent PCA Permaculture Climate Action! group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2046655862094973/
[Here’s my reaction: I have now [read this], thanks! What an interesting piece. It starts off, to my mind, quite hyberbolic – assertion after assertion after assertion. I get the point, and I agree (though I think it’s not all *correct* – there is such a thing as primeval European forest, I think, from the UK to Bosnia?). And then a lot of lovely sensitive stuff – the ‘what’s killing the trees?’ point – some of it reminiscent, to me, of A Sand County Almanac. And then it gets really powerful, a lot of power packed into a small number of words. And then… it ends! Clearly a transcript, of course.]
https://www.permacultuurnederland.org/permacultuurtk/introduction.pdf
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