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Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:24 pm on November 6, 2022  

The Phenomenology of Informationally Closed Beings:

Harish's avatarHarish's Notebook - My notes... Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science.

In Cybernetics, the idea of “informational closure” is an important one. This basically means that information does not enter us from the outside. We do not receive information as an input and process it to create representations. This is a remnant of René Descartes’s ideas. I will be utilizing the famous philosopher Hubert Dreyfus’s take on Martin Heidegger’s ideas. Heidegger realized that we do not create representations of the world in our minds. He noted that the world is not a set of meaningless facts which we take in and assign values to. Heidegger said that the values are more meaningless facts. Heidegger’s most famous example is that of a hammer. If we explain a hammer as a tool for hammering nails, this value statement ignores a whole lot of significance that comes with a hammer. A hammer is best understood through the act of hammering. Dreyfus wrote:

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Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 8:24 am on November 6, 2022  

cristóbal on Twitter: “What would you call this class of book? – Notes on the Synthesis of Form – Thinking in Systems – Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned – Cybernetics” / Twitter

What would you call this class of book?- Notes on the Synthesis of Form- Thinking in Systems- Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned- Cybernetics

(2) cristóbal on Twitter: “What would you call this class of book? – Notes on the Synthesis of Form – Thinking in Systems – Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned – Cybernetics” / Twitter

A good thread with various thoughts about why ‘this sort of book’ is so special (especially to certain types of people – ‘type of guy who…’ in some parts of twitter speak).

I added a few books to the list (which has significant overlap wth Lisa McNulty’s PostRat reading list https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/10/08/lisa-mcnulty-postrat-reading-list-zotero/ ), the concept of ‘threshold concepts’ (linked here before), and in response to @kanjun saying: I see these as attempts to begin formalizing very early fields. In lieu of experimental results, simple models serve as intuition pumps for future experiment design. @michael_nielsen & I felt this way in our metascience essay—we use metaphors but no math.

…I said: Very astute, that. The partial formation of a field, when it’s amorphous but real – before it’s formalised and constrained.

Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 4:24 am on November 6, 2022  

Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse? System analysis – The Health Foundation

Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse?

4 November 2022

Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse? – The Health Foundation
Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 2:12 pm on November 5, 2022
Tags: AppliedComplexity   

Santa Fe Institute on Twitter: “The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future” Follow this 🧵 today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium

“The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future”Follow this today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 #AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium:

(1) Santa Fe Institute on Twitter: “”The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future” Follow this 🧵 today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 #AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium: https://t.co/gpwJ87lX2s #Web3 #Cities #Polarization #EmergentEngineering #Decentralization https://t.co/EmFXb2VkAj” / Twitter
Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:43 am on November 5, 2022  

When will a large complex system be stable? (Cohen and Newman, 1985)

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volume 113, Issue 1, 7 March 1985, Pages 153-156

When will a large complex system be stable?

Joel E.Cohen†Charles M.Newman‡

When will a large complex system be stable? – ScienceDirect

Click to access 116CohenNewmanJTheorBiol1985.pdf

Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:41 am on November 5, 2022
Tags: VentureAltruist   

Can Economic Growth Continue Over the Long-term? Michael Garfield “Enjoyed this piece by fellow @longnow @ignitetalks presenter @JasonCrawford and share it as a launchpad from which we can hopefully engage in some thoughtful public discourse”…

Michael Garfield #VentureAltruist@michaelgarfieldEnjoyed this piece by fellow @longnow @ignitetalks presenter @JasonCrawford and share it as a launchpad from which we can hopefully engage in some thoughtful public discourse.Below I’ll share a few thoughts on this topic as a way of throwing sparks.https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/10/07/can-economic-growth-continue-over-the-long-term/…

(1) Michael Garfield 💫 #VentureAltruist on Twitter: “Enjoyed this piece by fellow @longnow @ignitetalks presenter @JasonCrawford and share it as a launchpad from which we can hopefully engage in some thoughtful public discourse. Below I’ll share a few thoughts on this topic as a way of throwing sparks. https://t.co/kzlMaPvX0c 1/n” / Twitter
Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:38 am on November 5, 2022  

Raissa D’Souza – The Collapse of Networks – YouTube

Raissa D’Souza – The Collapse of Networks

Raissa D’Souza – The Collapse of Networks – YouTube
Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 9:24 am on November 5, 2022
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Econophysics: making sense of a chimera | Yee (2021)

On various social media platforms (follow him for more), @daviding posted:

Caution on presumed isomorphism in #SystemsThinking by Adrian K. Yee

> The application of mechanisms from physics to the study of economic phenomena is often unjustified, given that the ontology of economic reality is distinct from that of physical reality, rendering physical explanations of economic phenomena inadequate.

Author’s share at rdcu.be/cz1sW

Yee, Adrian K. 2021. “Econophysics: Making Sense of a Chimera.” _European Journal for Philosophy of Science+ 11 (4): 100. https://lnkd.in/darFTnV9.

e.f Discussion in The Ecology of Systems Thinking https://www.facebook.com/groups/ecologyofsystemsthinking/posts/5595461717199593/?cft[0]=AZWfNLtIIw9F7emy1TJrfmgkmqPYAEtcIoqymV5F_JKtkCtdHEt_y5kbuVUtnakuyUCajingu9f2ZUOYkrBM-JVhKVbm8wG096WdvZ-aRLKwAcrgvEQ38U_xp0fgxKRsw5aMZEsq014aUApzjQSeyrHSQvFuQwUfP3LY9tCD79LXW8PSUXKFqdGxRNAog0XI8J8MEpYEVvrO9vaLG8ZK0ZP8&tn=%2CO%2CP-R

Econophysics: making sense of a chimera

Econophysics: making sense of a chimera | SpringerLink

#systemsthinking

Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 9:21 am on November 3, 2022  

Learning Festival 2022: Making the System Shift — The System Innovation Initiative online festival 28 Nov – 2 Dec 2022

Making the System Shift

28 Nov – 2 Dec 2022

A free online festival for people creating different systems for a better future

What does it really take to shift a system? Join us with 50 of the boldest system innovators from across the world as we take a deep dive into the practical realities of shifting systems towards better futures.

Learning Festival 2022: Making the System Shift — The System Innovation Initiative
Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 4:40 pm on November 1, 2022  

Are you interested in speaking at a SCiO Open Event?

Do you have an experience of practicing Systems Thinking that you’d like to share? … any aspect of using methods, or of systemic intervention?
If so, would you like to speak at a SCiO Open Event (www.systemspractice.org), for about an hour, about your experience?
We run Open Events every two months, some face-to-face in London or Manchester, or Monday evenings via Zoom. If that’s appealing, please contact tony.korycki@systemspractice.org, to find out more.

Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 4:07 am on October 31, 2022  

Agents, Networks, Evolution: A Quarter Century of Advances in Complex Systems, edited by Frank Schweitzer

Book available free for a year.

cxdig's avatarComplexity Digest

Scientific progress during the last three decades has greatly profited from our advances in understanding complex systems. Fundamental modeling approaches were considerably improved, particularly agent-based modeling, network science, nonlinear dynamics, and system science. At the same time, these approaches have been applied to and adopted by various scientific disciplines, ranging from physics and chemistry to engineering, molecular biology, economics, and the social sciences.

This book reflects the success of complexity science both from a historical and a modeling perspective. It uses 25 articles from different disciplines, published over 25 years, to demonstrate the power and problems of modeling complex systems.

The book’s four parts, Agent-based Models, Network Models, Models of System Dynamics, and Models of Evolution, each provide an informative synopsis of the respective modeling approach. An introductory overview summarizes each approach’s essential concepts, addresses the main research directions, and reviews applications in various disciplines. The selection of reprinted publications…

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Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:13 pm on October 30, 2022  

Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a (Further) Life (1989, 2010) | by Philippe Vandenbroeck | Oct, 2022 | Medium

Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a (Further) Life (1989, 2010)A Systems Library, Vol. 28Photo by Steve Johnson from PexelsIn this new addition to the Systems Library, I focus on two books — Composing a Life, and Composing a Further Life — published 20 years apart by the same author, Mary Catherine Bateson. Mary Catherine, who died early in 2021 at the age of 81, was the daughter of cyberneticist Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) and anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1978). The younger Nora, who was born of Bateson’s marriage to Lois Cammack, is Mary Catherine’s half-sister.

Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a (Further) Life (1989, 2010) | by Philippe Vandenbroeck | Oct, 2022 | Medium

More to read in the Systems Library:

Vol. 27: Hilary Bradbury: How to Do Action Research for Transformations (2022)

Vol. 26: Francis Laleman: Resourceful Exformation (2020)

Vol. 25: Keller Easterling: Medium Design(2020)

Vol. 24: Ian Cheng: An Emissaries Guide to Worlding (2018)

Vol. 23: Janis Birkeland: Positive Development (2008)

Vol. 22: Michel Serres: The Natural Contract (1990)

Vol. 21: Henk Oosterling: Resistance in Times of Ecopanic (2020)

Vol. 20: Ray Ison & Ed Straw: The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking (2020)

Vol. 19: Andreas Weber: Enlivenment (2019)

Vol. 18: Luc Hoebeke: Making Work Systems Better (1994)

Vol. 17: Donella Meadows: Thinking in Systems (2009)

Vol. 16: Lois Holzman: The Overweight Brain (2018)

Vol. 15: Hanne De Jaegher: Loving and Knowing. Reflections for an Engaged Epistemology (2018)

Vol. 14: Judi Marshall: First-person Action Research: Living Life as Inquiry (2016)

Vol. 13: Jocelyn Chapman (Ed.): For the Love of Cybernetics (2020)

Vol. 12: John Morecroft: Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics (2007)

Vol. 11: Antoine de St Exupéry: Flight to Arras (1942)

Vol. 10: Edgar Schein: Humble Inquiry (2013)

Vol. 9: Peter Block: Community. The Structure of Belonging (2008)

Vol. 8: Valerie Ahl & Timothy Allen: Hierarchy Theory (1996)

Vol. 7: Herbert Simon: The Sciences of the Artificial (1969, 1998)

Vol. 6: Donald Schon: Beyond the Stable State (1971)

Vol. 5: Barry Oshry: Seeing Systems (2007)

Vol. 4: Béla Bánáthy: Guided Evolution of Society. A Systems View (2000)

Vol. 3: Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh: The Path (2016)

Vol. 2: Stafford Beer: ‘Designing Freedom’ (1974)

Vol. 1: John Law and Annemarie Mol (Eds.): ‘Complexities’ (2014)

Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:38 am on October 30, 2022  

RNS Journal … | New design pattern science for working with natural systems – and bioregional regeneration summary, starting 1 November 2022

RNS Journal … | New design pattern science for working with natural systems.

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022  11 AM EDT
Bioregional Regeneration Summit – Register Here (free) 

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022  11 AM EDTBioregional Regeneration Summit – Register Here (free) 

RNS Journal … | New design pattern science for working with natural systems.
Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:32 am on October 28, 2022  

Reducing obesity: obesity system map – GOV.UK (2007)

[I’ve seen the map itself many times, and this page at least once before – the famous ‘systems map’ (which is revealed to actually be an influence diagram) was recently used to illustrate https://stream.syscoi.com/2022/10/21/systems-change-all-things-to-all-people-beth-stout-renaisi/ – on facebook, Greg Brougham linked the main thing – which I see was authored by Philippe, Vandenbroeck, Dr Jo Goossens, Marshall Clemens – and the full documents are quite interesting]

Reducing obesity: obesity system map – GOV.UK

Research and analysisReducing obesity: obesity system mapVisual representations of the different factors that influence levels of obesity.From:Government Office for SciencePublished17 October 2007

Reducing obesity: obesity system map – GOV.UK

Research and analysis

Reducing obesity: obesity system map

Visual representations of the different factors that influence levels of obesity.From:Government Office for SciencePublished17 October 2007Get emails about this page

Documents

Tackling obesities: future choices – obesity system atlas

Ref: 07/1177PDF, 12.3 MB, 46 pages

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Tackling obesities: future choices – full systems map (high resolution)

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Tackling obesities: future choices – building the obesity system map

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This report presents the visual representations of the obesity system map developed to understand the wide range of different factors that influence levels of obesity and how they interact.

The accompanying report includes a full description of the methodology used to create these maps and guidance on how to interpret them.

This report was commissioned as part of the Foresight project on tackling obesities.

Published 17 October 2007

Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 7:14 am on October 28, 2022  

What is our built environment doing to us as a species? Come explore a model of human ecology for future habitat design. | LinkedIn

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With our man-made constructed environment humanity has left an unprecedented footprint in this so-called ‘Anthropocene’. With our built environment’s impact on the natural environment, especially because of our resource extraction and waste, not only have our construction activities impacted nature, it has fundamentally impacted human social organisation. This comes at a cost of meaningful experience.

Join our free interactive on-line webinar – Thursday 10th November @ 18h30 London time https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduivrzwuHd1ySK15mp9ISjNwjiRgKEqN

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