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Phenomenology and ComplexityOpen accessPublished: 28 September 2022volume 28, pages1047–1058 (2023)Download PDFYou have full access to thisopen accessarticleFoundations of ScienceAims and scopeSubmit manuscriptAndrea Zhok
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A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cybersemiotics
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Foreword:
Cybernetics of Music, Conversation and Education
Articles:
On Music, Knowing, and Black Boxes
Cybernetics, Education, and Psychology: Discovering Potentials (Yet) Unearthed
Paskian Algebra: A Discursive Approach to Conversational Multi-agent Systems
Column:
Virtual Logic – Autopoeisis and Eigenform The Art of Self-Assembly
Book Review:
The Role of Academia in a World of Crisis
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Cybernetics & Human KnowingA Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & CybersemioticsCybernetics of Music, Conversation and EducationVolume 30Issue: 1-2Year: 2023Table of ContentForeword: Cybernetics of Music, Conversation and EducationArticles: On Music, Knowing, and Black BoxesCybernetics, Education, and Psychology: Discovering Potentials (Yet) UnearthedWhat is Conversation Theory?Paskian Algebra: A Discursive Approach to Conversational Multi-agent SystemsThe Case Against NarrativeIn a Search for Deeper Meanings: Navigating the Circle of Sense and Nonsense and In Turn Articulating Logical Varieties as Knowledge IlluminatorsDesigning Sociohistorically Sensitive Information Search: Experimental Analyses of Essays Written Using ThoughtShuffler and GoogleColumn: Virtual Logic – Autopoeisis and Eigenform The Art of Self-AssemblyBook Review: The Role of Academia in a World of CrisisFeatured Artist: Ana Cristina Coura
Cybernetics of Music, Conversation and Education | Cybernetics & Human Knowing
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SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – November 2023
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Double-loop Learning in Complex Project Environments – Gregory Cupal
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Tue 14 November 2023 18:00–20:00 CET
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[‘Rev’ is one of the most interesting voices on Twitter, and states something very clearly and precisely here]
The classical Daoists were known for turning their attention to nature. Xunzi specifically condemns Zhuangzi for this.
(1) St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 on X: “This is a huge digression, but I want to expand something that I usually only hint at, which I think is very important. So bear with me for a minute. The classical Daoists were known for turning their attention to nature. Xunzi specifically condemns Zhuangzi for this.” / X
Key parts of the tweet thread for the record:
The classical Daoists were known for turning their attention to nature. Xunzi specifically condemns Zhuangzi for this. But the word ‘nature’ is connotatively misleading, particularly for modern westerners. If we translate it instead as ‘reality’, we can see early Daoism as containing a particularly relentless focus on empiricism.
“Empty your mind and turn to nature” sounds like hippie bullshit. Reframe it as ‘discard your preconceived model and just fucking pay attention to what’s going on without imposing what you think is happening’, and it’s something else entirely.
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The point is, reality never stops spinning away from our beliefs about it. It’s a lesson that one has to constantly re-learn. It’s hard to hold onto it, it’s a lot of work to keep breaking out of one’s frame.
Reality doesn’t care. It will keep spinning away from you, forever. (There’s a technical sense in which this can be made somewhat precise: living systems should be expected to periodically move near fixed points with positive lyapunov exponents along undetected variables)
(Translated: as long as you’re alive, you should expect to be periodically surprised by blowups from directions you hadn’t noticed before — because a positive lyapunov exponent looks like a negative one in the rear-view mirror)
So if you want a long life, you must ‘attune yourself to nature’, in the practical sense of ‘fucking pay attention and don’t let yourself fall into the trap of imposing your predictions onto the data’
This may sound trite, but it’s really fucking hard. It is. Not forcibly interposing your beliefs between your eyes and the rest of the world is a constant struggle, but when you stop doing it, you start to die.
Reality doesn’t care one way or the other. “Heaven and Earth are not humane. They regard all things as straw dogs.” Reality will always spin away from you. That’s just what it does. Act accordingly.
Rev
Lyapunov Exponent
“In mathematics, the Lyapunov exponent or Lyapunov characteristic exponent of a dynamical system is a quantity that characterizes the rate of separation of infinitesimally close trajectories.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_exponent
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/lyapunov-exponent
And an Arxiv: Important Notes on Lyapunov Exponents – Keying Guan
Abstract: It is shown that the famous Lyapunov exponents cannot be used as the numerical characteristic for distinguishing different kinds of attractors, such as the equilibrium point、 the limit closed curve、the stable torus and the strange attractor.
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Organizational Cybernetics framework for Diagnosing and Designing organizations
Organizational Cybernetics framework for Diagnosing and Designing organizations, Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 6:00 PM | Meetup
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Details: Hi Systems Thinkers, This month we are honoured and excited to hear from Jose Perez Rios, full professor of Business Organization (University of Valladolid, Spain), an Academician of “International Academy for Systems and Cybernetics Sciences (IASCYS)” and a member or the Board of Directors of the “World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics …
[Umm, I dunno, what do you think? ‘Meta-Ockham 1’ seems sensible but (2) seems to move the focus of the ‘science’ potentially from explanation to description? And in “discovering and encoding regularities in irreducibly high dimensional phenomena”, the ‘encoding’ slips in there rather subtly in a way which I think deserves more conversation? Certainly interesting anyway]
Front. Complex Syst., 18 October 2023
Sec. Complex Systems Theory
Volume 1 – 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcpxs.2023.1235202
Insights In Complex Systems Theory
Complexity science and machine learning are two complementary approaches to discovering and encoding regularities in irreducibly high dimensional phenomena. Whereas complexity science represents a coarse-grained paradigm of understanding, machine learning is a fine-grained paradigm of prediction. Both approaches seek to solve the “Wigner-Reversal” or the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in the adaptive domain where broken symmetries and broken ergodicity dominate. In order to integrate these paradigms I introduce the idea of “Meta-Ockham” which 1) moves minimality from the description of a model for a phenomenon to a description of a process for generating a model and 2) describes low dimensional features–schema–in these models. Reinforcement learning and natural selection are both parsimonious in this revised sense of minimal processes that parameterize arbitrarily high-dimensional inductive models containing latent, low-dimensional, regularities. I describe these models as “super-Humean” and discuss the scientic value of analyzing their latent dimensions as encoding functional schema.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcpxs.2023.1235202/full
A post from Rev on Twitter reminded me this hasn’t been here explicitly
Catastrophe theory – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory
[I make zero representation concerning which, if any of these, are any good and which, if any, are game-playing, badly transliterated, literature review based messes]
Systems, Volume 11, Issue 10 (October 2023) – 41 articles
Systems | October 2023 – Browse Articles
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Li Keqiang and cybernetics, a short thread:1/ During the post-Mao era there was a renewed interest in cybernetics which, alongside von Bertalanffy’s systems theory and Shannon’s information theory, was known as the “(old) 3 theories” (老三论).
(1) Tianyu Fang on X: “Li Keqiang and cybernetics, a short thread: 1/ During the post-Mao era there was a renewed interest in cybernetics which, alongside von Bertalanffy’s systems theory and Shannon’s information theory, was known as the “(old) 3 theories” (老三论). https://t.co/wWM90QHwCk” / X
Biological Holism: A New Paradigm? — LessWrong
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QpByFkccNFNCakWeN/biological-holism-a-new-paradigm
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