See this tweet and replies from Paul Nightingale

includes:
“The early ones were literally Nazis who were interned after the war. Concepts like Fuhrer-prinzip had to be cleaned up for US audiences.”
“Cybernetics is later. Systems theory emerged in 1930s Germany, Bertalanffy was in the Nazi party.”
“The pre war categories were often racial, while the post war US work was actively trying to purge all racial and biological characteristics from their conceptions of human agents. Which is why they are often so abstract.”

Creative Systemic Research Platform Instituteis an institution aiming to promote research and development of non-profit projects. We focus on investigating the skills needed for Community Resilience, supported by ecological practices and systemic and creative learning.Existing since 2017 as a non-profit research group, we evolved in December 2020 into the CSRP Institute.

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Systems MappingHow to build and use causal models of systems

Systems Mapping | SpringerLink

Systems Mapping

How to build and use causal models of systems

Authors:

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• Pete Barbrook-Johnson, 
• Alexandra S. Penn

• Provides a practical and in-depth discussion of causal systems mapping methods
• Provides guidance on running systems mapping workshops and using different types of data and evidence
• Orientates readers to the systems mapping landscape and explores how we can compare, choose, and combine methods
• This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

David Ing, “Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making”, The Journal of Sustaiable Smart Behavior , August 2022, in press

2022/07 Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making | Coevolving Innovations

2022/07 Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making

 24th Jun 2022

Authors

David Ing

Abstract

In 2022, the Systems Changes Learning Circle is in its fourth year of 10-year journey on “Rethinking Systems Thinking”. In a contextural action learning approach, the Circle has elevated rhythmic shifts as the feature that both resonates with practitioners in the field, and fits with a post-colonial philosophy of science bridging classical Chinese thought with Western professional practices. This multiparadigm inquiry recasts and reifies the activities of doing (praxis), thinking (theoria) and making (poiesis). The facility with this approach is deepened through three levels: (i) educating of attention, orienting novices towards contrasting modes of thought; (ii) learning for co-relating, lending a way for practitioners to critically appreciate their situations, and (iii) learning for articulating, aiding mentors to guide groups productively through mutual learning.

Citation

David Ing, “Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making”, The Journal of Sustaiable Smart Behavior , August 2022, in press

Is the subject of systems change(s), as a whole, distinct from a reduction into (i) systems and (ii) changes? For practice, theory and methods to be authentically rigourous, the philosophy underlying an approach to systems changes can be explicated. An appreciative systems framework surfaces presumptions of (i) what are and are not systems changes; (ii) when, where, and for whom, systems changes are prioritized for attention; and (iii) how systems changes should be addressed. Philosophies of (i) architectural design; (ii) ecological anthropology, and (iii) Classical Chinese Medicine are explored through multiparadigm inquiry, and open theorizing. The resulting influence of these three philosophies is considered, leading to a philosophy of systems rhythms more explicitly proposed as a foundation on which to approach systems changes.

2022/07/08 Appreciating Systems Changes | Coevolving Innovations

Kenneth Stanley: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective Kenneth O. Stanley, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida In artificial intelligence and elsewhere, it has long been assumed that the best way to achieve an ambitious outcome is to set it as an explicit objective and then to measure progress on the road to its achievement. Upending this conventional wisdom, a series of unusual experiments in machine learning has shown that, for a broad class of outcomes, the very act of setting objectives can block their achievement. More fundamentally, the same so-called “objective paradox” applies not only in computer algorithms but across many human endeavors: Often, to achieve our highest aspirations, we must be willing to abandon them. As a corollary, collaboration can sometimes thwart innovation by tacitly forcing its participants into an objective-driven mindset. The moral is both sobering and liberating: We can potentially achieve more by following a non-objective yet still principled path, after throwing off the shackles of objectives, metrics, and mandated outcomes.

Kenneth Stanley: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective – YouTube

h/t Toby Lowe https://twitter.com/tobyjlowe/status/1544662634808713218

Our global civilization faces multiple systemic threats.The inevitable deeply disruptive transition will lead…EITHER to untold pain and suffering – via chaosOR (maybe) to a New Era – via conscious evolution.On this site, we curate the content of some of the people and organizations who are consciously working directly or indirectly on Humanity’s Transition.Watch the video to learn more, and please Support Us if you can.Explore.   Learn.   Inform your decisions.

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As the world faces a growing number of existential challenges, our governments and institutions are failing us precisely at the moment we need them most. What if we could come together to work on identifying and developing public, common-good solutions to the world’s most urgent wicked problems?It’s time to re-design society by tackling the Wicked 7. What might that look like?

What is The Wicked 7? – The Wicked 7

The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems by Christian Sarkar

The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems by Christian Sarkar – Global Peter Drucker Forum BLOG

STiP Jubilee Seminar: Second-order perspectives on learning and practice under complex conditions

Second-order perspectives on learning and practice under complex conditions is presented by Dr Andrew Mitchelle of De Montfort University.

STiP Jubilee Seminar: Second-order perspectives on learning and practice under complex conditions – YouTube

Providing sound theoretical roots to sustainability science: systems science and (second-order) cyberneticsLucio Biggiero

(99+) Providing sound theoretical roots to sustainability science: systems science and (second-order) cybernetics | Lucio Biggiero – Academia.edu

CybCon22: Advantages of a Model-Centric Cybernetics ParadigmThis is the most recent presentation, which was given at the May 2022 Cybernetics Society Cybernetics Conversation Conference.First it demonstrates how the new paradigm can be derived from the first principles of cybernetics and how it naturally extends beyond second-order reflexivity to create a third-order regulator, which is a new class of regulator that is also known as an Ethical Regulator.Then an intervention is proposed where the definitions of cybernetics are redefined to clearly distinguish between the Science of Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Cybernetics. In this paradigm, third-order cybernetics equates to Ethical Cybernetics, which can be regarded itself as being a third-order ethical regulator of all the other ethically agnostic, dual-use, second-order sciences and social systems.

CybCon22: Advantages of a Model-Centric Cybernetics Paradigm

See also

http://ashby.info/ethics/

Uniting Mind, Matter and LifeDONATE NOWIssue 333Jul/Aug 2022What’s in a WordConnected LifeUniting Mind, Matter and Lifeby Alfredo Erlwein-VicuñaCover: Artwork by Carole Hénaff www.carolehenaff.comBuy IssueReprint permissionsAlfredo Erlwein-Vicuña considers the theory of autopoiesis 50 years on.

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