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Moving From Transactional To Relational: Volume 1, Issue 2 – News – Presencing Institute

link https://www.nfi.edu/kuleshov-effect/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect

Some things I’ve learned about change (1)

Some things I’ve learned about change (1) – Escaping the invisible asylum

Russell Ackoff

FROM MECHANISTIC TO SYSTEMIC THINKING

November 1993

Presented at the Systems Thinking in Action conference, Ackoff states that humanity is in the early stage of a transition from the Machine Age to the Systems Age. The Machine Age was characterized by belief in complete understandability of the universe, analysis as a method of inquiry, and cause and effect as a sufficient relationship to explain all. The dilemma that disrupted such beliefs was systems thinking. The Machine Age began to die when humanity gave up the principle of understandability. Gradually, it’s become accepted that there can be no complete understanding of the universe because nothing can be understood independently of its environment—all is environmentally relative. While analysis produces knowledge, it is synthesis that produces understanding. Furthermore, the Systems Age recognizes that cause and effect is just one way of looking at reality among an infinite number.

From Mechanistic to Systemic Thinking – Russell Ackoff

Frame Control by Aella 27th Nov 2021

Frame Control – LessWrong

Frame Control

by Aella27th Nov 2021

Social & Cultural DynamicsSocial RealityFramesWorld ModelingPersonal Blog

Crossposted from my blog

When I mention my dad’s abuse, I mention salient things – physical pain, insults, and controlling behavior. These are “clearly bad” – if I tell you that he often told me I was lazy and would fail horribly at life once I left home, you know it’s bad, because it’s concrete, easy to imagine and obviously unkind. But this wasn’t the worst of the abuse; the most terrible parts were extraordinarily hard to understand or describe.

In his world, I felt insane – I couldn’t tell what was real, who was at fault, or why my heart hurt so much. My sense of clarity around my own intentions crumbled; everything I thought or did might have seemed good on the surface, but that goodness became just a disguise for my true, darker intentions – all helpfully revealed to me by my dad. And none of it was salient or concrete or easily understandable; I remember my mom once telling me, “I can’t describe what this is like to other people. The individual things seem so silly, I can’t put the important thing into words.” 

I’m going to try to put it into words, and the words I personally use for “the important thing” are frame control. 

Continues in source

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bQ6zpf6buWgP939ov/frame-control

and

https://knowingless.com/

What Is Memory that It May Have Hindsight and Foresight as well

What Is Memory that It May Have Hindsight and Foresight as well | Semantic Scholar

What Is Memory that It May Have Hindsight and Foresight as well

• H. Foerster
• Published 1969
• Psychology

“What is Time?” According to Legend, Augustine’s reply to this question was: “If no one asks me, I know: but if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.” Memory has a similar quality, for if not asked, we all know what memory is, but when asked, we have to call for an International Conference on the Future of Brain Sciences. However, with a minimal change of the question, we could have made it much easier for Augustine. If asked “What’s the time?” he may have observed the position of the sun and replied: “Since it grazes the horizon in the west, it is about the sixth hour after noon.”

When meaning loses its meaning, with Nora Bateson & Dave Snowden

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As the theory and application of complexity and systems thinking translates into new epistemological worlds and emerging ontological possibilities, there is an ever-growing need for rigour, attention and creative understanding of the language and metaphors that circulate.

We invite you to a series of conversations between Nora Bateson and Dave Snowden to explore the uses and shifting meanings of some of the key concepts and ideas in the fields of complexity and systems theory. We will dive into the origins and histories of concepts like abduction and ecology to explore how meanings stretch, transform and sometimes wear out across ecosystems of communication.

This journey with Nora and Dave offers unique perspectives – tracing the roots of ideas and discerning subtle differences – towards a shared curiosity in the integrity of cultural dialogue and tending vital connections across understandings.

EMERGENCE An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social System

Home Page – Emergence: Complexity & Organization

Collected Works of Warren S. McCulloch Edited by Rook McCulloch

– Emergence: Complexity & Organization

Warren Sturgis McCulloch Interview Canadian Broadcasting 1969 – Warren speaks of brains and thinking machines, science and his legacy, and the need to be ‘completely humble to the facts and completely haughty to man…’

Warren Sturgis McCulloch Interview on Vimeo

Warren Sturgis McCulloch Interview

Canadian Broadcasting 1969 – Warren speaks of brains and thinking machines, science and his legacy, and the need to be ‘completely humble to the facts and completely haughty to man…’

What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger.

What Is Life? – Wikipedia

32-page version (lectures) http://www.whatislife.ie/downloads/What-is-Life.pdf

1944 book

http://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/school/univ_110/papers/schroedinger1944_what_is_life.pdf

or

http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/schrodinger-what-is-life-mind-matter-auto-sketches.pdf

THE SECOND CYBERNETICS Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes

[PDF] THE SECOND CYBERNETICS Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes | Semantic Scholar

THE SECOND CYBERNETICS Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes

• Magoroh Maruyama
• Published 1963
• Engineering

Since its inception, cybernetics was more or less identified as a science of self-regulating and equilibrating systems. Thermostats, physiological regulation of body temperature, automatic steering devices, economic and political processes were studied under a general mathematical model of deviation-counteracting feedback networks. By focusing on the deviation-counteracting aspect of the mutual causal relationships however, the cyberneticians paid less attention to the systems in which the mutual causal effects are deviation-amplifying. Such systems are ubiquitous: accumulation of capital in industry, evolution of living organisms, the rise of cultures of various types, interpersonal processes which produce menial illness, international conflicts, and the processes that are loosely termed as “vicious circles” and “compound interests”; in short, all processes of mutual causal relationships that amplify an insignificant or accidental initial kick, build up deviation and diverge from the initial condition. In contrast to the progress in the study of equilibrating systems, the deviation-amplifying systems have not been given as much investment of time and energy by the mathematical scientists on the one hand, and understanding and practical application on the part of geneticists, ecologists, politicians and psychotherapists on the other hand. The deviation-counteracting mutual causal systems and the deviation-amplifying mutual causal systems may appear to be opposite types of systems. But they have one essential feature in common: they are both mutual causal systems, i.e., the elements within a system influence each other either simultaneously or alternatingly. The difference between the two types of systems is that the deviation-counteracting system has mutual negative feedbacks between the elements in it while the deviationamplifying system has mutual positive feedbacks between the elements in it.

McCulloch W. S. (1960) What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number? General Semantics Bulletin 26/27: 7–18. Available at https://cepa.info/1821

McCulloch W. S. (1960) What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number? [1821]

http://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/mcculloch_what-is-a-number.pdf

Not sure if the link to pdf above will render in WordPress so here it is again: http://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/mcculloch_what-is-a-number.pdf

Lots of very nice personal reminiscences (including of Pitts) and some sharp summaries, a review of philosophy and relevant science to date.

Complexity and organization–environment relations: Revisiting Ashby’s law of requisite variety

(PDF) Complexity and organization–environment relations: Revisiting Ashby’s law of requisite variety

Development of an Instrument to Assess Capacity for Systems Thinking☆ Author links open overlay panelKaitlynn M.CastelleaRaed M.Jaradatb

Development of an Instrument to Assess Capacity for Systems Thinking – ScienceDirect