A view or perspective on the world
Artificial Intelligence, A Guide for Thinking Humans
(1) Abeba Birhane on Twitter: “Artificial Intelligence, A Guide for Thinking Humans — Melanie #Mitchell #amreading https://t.co/0ZbR36z1Ym” / Twitter
Abeba Birhane does good and relevant readalong tweet threads, like this one:
Do you enable learning across boundaries? Can you connect people across silos? Are you able to bring a broader view to local settings?
Have you heard of systems conveners? Are you one?
Or do you simply want to learn more about this approach?
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Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity
Measuring Narrative Change, v2.0
OU 50th STiP Seminar: On Being a System within Systems
OU 50th STiP Seminar: On Being a System within Systems Tickets, Tue 7 Sep 2021 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
SEP 07
by The Open University, Faculty of STEM
Tyson’s work involves applying an Indigenous complexity lens to the drivers of global systemic crises.
Democratizing Access To The Tools For Transformation
Democratizing Access To The Tools For Transformation | by Otto Scharmer | Field of the Future Blog | Aug, 2021 | Medium
In today’s post, I am looking at the idea of ‘category mistake’ by the eminent British philosopher Gilbert Ryle. Ryle was an ardent opponent of Rene Descartes’ view of mind-body dualism. Ryle also came up with the phrase ‘the ghost in the machine’ to mock the idea of dualism. Cartesian dualism is the idea that mind and body are two separate entities. Descartes was perhaps influenced by his religious beliefs. Our bodies are physical entities that will wither away when we die. But our minds, Descartes concluded are immaterial and can “live on” after we die. Descartes noted:
There is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible… the mind or soul of man is entirely different from the body.
Ryle called this idea the official doctrine:
The official doctrine, which hails chiefly from…
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Pixel: a biography
A biography of the pixel, the elementary particle of pictures | Aeon Essays
An exact mathematical concept, pixels are the elementary particles of pictures, based on a subtle unpacking of infinityWoody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story (1995). Main image courtesy of Pixar Animation Studios; all additional inset diagrams © Alvy Ray Smith, except where notedAlvy Ray Smith
was born before computers, made his first computer graphic in 1964, cofounded Pixar, was the first director of computer graphics at Lucasfilm, and the first graphics fellow at Microsoft. He is the author of A Biography of the Pixel (2021).3,200 words
Edited byNigel Warburton
The Dynamics of Vertical and Horizontal Diversity in Organization and Society
The Dynamics of Vertical and Horizontal Diversity in Organization and Society – Susan M. Awbrey, 2007
Susan M. AwbreyFirst Published March 1, 2007 Research Articlehttps://doi.org/10.1177/1534484306295638
Diversity focuses on human characteristics that make people either different from or the same as each other. This article introduces the concepts of vertical and horizontal diversity. Vertical diversity evaluates difference as superior or inferior. Horizontal diversity treats difference as variation. Organizational paradigms of assimilation and separation are based on vertical diversity and treat diversity as a problem to be solved. Assimilation solves it by submergence of difference and separation by isolating difference. Often organizations in the United States take a benevolent assimilation approach to diversity. However, research shows that assimilation does not engage diversity in ways that promote learning, creativity, and organizational effectiveness. This article argues for a relational re-conceptualization of diversity as horizontal. The discussion integrates diversity paradigms with diversity perspectives, levels of self-representation, and uncertainty and certainty orientations to create an explanatory framework for the dynamics of diversity.
h/t Mikael Seppala
Launch of Playbook for Systemic Innovation
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Halogen, Demos Helsinki and Future fit Leadership Academy are proud to present a step-by-step approach to systemic transformation and ecosystem innovation. Together, we have developed a Playbook for Systemic Innovation – Mindsets and Methods for Transformation.
Across private and public sectors, fundamental industries such as food production, energy, transportation, communication and materials, all face a series of serious challenges. The sustainability gap is vast, as a result of what we call transformative failure.
The solution is transformations that are not only economically viable, but also covers ecological and social needs. This calls for systemic change; we must go from one paradigm to another.
We appreciate that business as usual is hard enough as it is, and introducing new business models, new competences and new forms of collaboration can seem almost impossible. But it is possible.
Through an R&D project, funded by Innovation Norway, we have gathered our knowledge and systemised our competence in a new offering, a step-by-step approach to ecosystem innovation. The framework has been developed through real-life projects with fish farming company Aquaressurs and trade organisation Abelia. The process and results will be presented at the launch.
The playbook covers aspects such as regenerative mindsets, systemic mapping, systemic leadership, orchestration of ecosystems, design driven innovation and portfolio management, accompanied by real-life examples and business cases.
Join our digital launch Thursday September 16th @ 9:00 CET to learn more about our Systemic Playbook and how to start transformative change in your organisation
Learning for Systems Change
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Why this social change agent wants you to ‘fail better’ | MIT Sloan
by Kara Baskin
Aug 17, 2021
Kara Penn learns from “smart mistakes” as she works bringing community development, management, and systems thinking to bear on social issues.Share
“Improved failure” might sound like an oxymoron. Not for Kara Penn, who explains how bold managers can exploit, design, and use failure as an asset in “Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner,” which she co-wrote with MIT Sloan senior lecturerAnjali Sastry.Work smart with our Thinking Forward newsletterInsights from MIT experts, delivered every Tuesday morning.Email Address
As founder and principal consultant at Denver-based Mission Spark, Penn harnesses ideas from community development, management, and systems thinking to improve the social sector — a nod to her previous positions as a counselor at a juvenile detention facility, business advisor to low-income Southeast Asian artists, and nonprofit consultant.
We talked with Penn, MBA ’07, about the power of collaboration, the role of reflection in generating ideas, and why we all need to be systems-thinkers.
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Why this social change agent wants you to ‘fail better’ | MIT Sloan
Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
(10) (PDF) Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
We are doomed to formulate conceptual structures that are much simpler than the complex phenomena they are attempting to account for. These simple conceptual structures shield us, pragmatically, from real-world complexity, but also fail, frequently, as some aspect of what we did not take into consideration makes itself manifest. The failure of our concepts dysregulates our emotions and generates anxiety, necessarily, as the unconstrained world is challenging and dangerous. Such dysregulation can turn us into rigid, totalitarian dogmatists, as we strive to maintain the structure of our no longer valid beliefs. Alternatively, we can face the underlying complexity of experience, voluntarily, gather new information, and recast and reconfigure the structures that underly our habitable worlds.
Systems Thinking and the Jungian Framework
Systems Thinking and the Jungian Framework – Systems Changes – Open Learning Commons
The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity
The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity | Artificial Life | MIT Press
June 11 2021
Abeba BirhaneAuthor and Article Information
Artificial Life (2021) 27 (1): 44–61
https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00336
On the one hand, complexity science and enactive and embodied cognitive science approaches emphasize that people, as complex adaptive systems, are ambiguous, indeterminable, and inherently unpredictable. On the other, Machine Learning (ML) systems that claim to predict human behaviour are becoming ubiquitous in all spheres of social life. I contend that ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ML systems are close descendants of the Cartesian and Newtonian worldview in so far as they are tools that fundamentally sort, categorize, and classify the world, and forecast the future. Through the practice of clustering, sorting, and predicting human behaviour and action, these systems impose order, equilibrium, and stability to the active, fluid, messy, and unpredictable nature of human behaviour and the social world at large. Grounded in complexity science and enactive and embodied cognitive science approaches, this article emphasizes why people, embedded in social systems, are indeterminable and unpredictable. When ML systems “pick up” patterns and clusters, this often amounts to identifying historically and socially held norms, conventions, and stereotypes. Machine prediction of social behaviour, I argue, is not only erroneous but also presents real harm to those at the margins of society.Complexity, machine learning, artificial intelligence, embodiment, equity, racial justice
SYSTEMS CHANGE THROUGH LOCAL ECONOMIES SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2021 FREE ONLINE CONFERENCE
Systems Change Through Local Economies – Systems Change Alliance
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