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

Description of the ‘flash of realisation’ of the breakthrough

Ronald Kline telling the same story

Oral history: interview

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Harold_S._Black

Black’s 1934 article in The Bell System Technical Journal

Alternative link for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iFrxyJAtJ7U

Harold Black and the Invention of the Negative Feedback Amplifier

Harold Black and the Invention of the Negative Feedback Amplifier – AT&T Archives – YouTube

h/t Steve Hales

Systems Science: “Thought About Thought”

For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003. 

His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”

This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.

When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.

A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.

John N. WarfieldSystems ScienceSoftwareBooksCatalogCollectionsAboutContactLog inSystems Science: “Thought About Thought”For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003. His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.

Systems Science

https://www.jnwarfield.com/systems-science.html

h/t Jason Hu

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them.

By Amanda Gefter

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September 25, 2024

When Johnny Wheeler was 4 years old, splashing in the bathtub in Youngstown, Ohio, he looked up at his mother and asked, “What happens when you get to the end of things?” The question would haunt him for the rest of his life. What happens when you get to the bottom of space? What happens when you get to the edge of time? It would lead him to suggest that space-time can’t be the true fabric of the universe. It would compel him, even in his final days, to search for some deeper reality beneath space-time and to wonder whether, somehow, that reality loops back to us.

continues in source…

John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality | Quanta Magazine

[A good intro]

Systemic Design Association

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Birger Sevaldson [dipl NCAD PhD] is a professor at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Institute of Design. He is trained as an interior architect and furniture designer. He has been practising in various fields of design, including architecture and interior design, furniture design, industrial design and art-based projects. He has a PhD in creative design computing and has been researching systems thinking in design since 2006. He is central in the development of Systems Oriented Design, and his research focus is to develop systems oriented design thinking and practice for meeting the increased challenges of globalisation and the need for sustainability. He publishes on various themes, including systems oriented design, creativity, and research by design. Birger is a member of the council of the Design Research Society and is the founder of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposia and a co-founder of the Systemic Design Association. From systemsorienteddesign.net/birger-sevaldson/

About Systemic Design – YouTube

Marija Roglic

Action research scholar in neo-endogenous management and systems thinking

October 11, 2024

Reflections on Systems Mapping and Wicked Problems in Food SystemsMarija RoglicAction research scholar in neo-endogenous management and systems thinkingOctober 11, 2024

Reflections on Systems Mapping and Wicked Problems in Food Systems | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflections-systems-mapping-wicked-problems-food-marija-roglic-gkg2f/?trackingId=%2BcZtPqlYNJIl46Q3Qp%2BZrQ%3D%3D

My comment:

• cross-posted to the discussion on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/harishjose_on-alethic-unfolding-in-systems-thinking-activity-7251284335830441984-o5Xx
• oh, bravo, this is great!
• Links for me to concepts of ‘affordance’ but ‘unveiling of affordance’, to the insight of a joke or the unveiling of a puzzle or cracking a Bongard Game (see https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/06/09/a-first-lesson-in-meta-rationality-meaningness/), and in the way you talk about unconcealment and concealment, of course to Macluhan’s Tetrads https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/04/22/marshall-macluhans-tetrad-of-media-effects/
• Oh, and specifically on this problem in ‘transport systems’, this brilliant piece from Strong Towns https://chosen-path.org/2022/04/27/why-cant-we-talk-the-same-language-when-its-so-important/ (well it’s a podcast of a recording of a US City Council meeting but trust me, it works)
• Worth saying also in relation to ‘meta-rationality’ that all forms (I think) of ‘adult development’ could also be seen as ways of raising our awareness of this foundation of reality and our ability to embody and understand – and even ‘model’ – these different contextualities. (As is, for example, Donna Meadows’ ‘places to intervene in a system’, and Mike has already on Linkedin drawn attention to

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/09/15/of-mental-models-and-internal-representations/?page_id=2602

Systems Soundbites

Thoughts – Systems Soundbites

We’re growing! Applications for Assistant Professor Position Now Open.

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in complex systems science.

Application review begins October 14, 2024.

We’re growing! Applications for Assistant Professor Position Now Open. | U-M LSA Center for the Study of Complex Systems

https://lsa.umich.edu/cscs/news-events/all-news/search-news/complex-systems-is-hiring-0.html

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Libro Addressing challenges of an uncertain world: A CyberSystemic approach Festschrift for professor Raúl Espejo, ISBN 9789587544398, Ediciones Unibagué – ASEUC

WOSCORG

Save14 views 7 Oct 2024WOSC congress 2024 Keynote John Beckford “Still in Torment: (Re)Designing Freedom” It is now 30 years since ‘World in Torment’ explored ‘chronic societary triage’ (WOSC, Beer 1993) and 50 since ‘Designing Freedom’ considered the role of ‘science in the service of man’. This address will briefly rehearse the key ideas of those works and then consider the current state of the world. Examining the societary, political, economic and planetary challenges we are now facing it will examine thosechallenges from a cybernetic perspective and show how those ideas can support us in resolving ‘The Real Threat to “All We Hold Most Dear

John Beckford Still in Torment: (Re)Designing Freedom – YouTube

[The two below – all recent posts h/t Luis Pessoa – and a lot more similar talks including Emergence and Causation)

William Bechtel discusses his new book “Philosophy of Neuroscience” (with Linus Huang), including mechanisms and hierarchy/heterarchy (audio only)

Paul Cisek discusses his phylogenetic approach (audio only)

Neuroscience & Philosophy SalonWilliam Bechtel discusses his new book “Philosophy of Neuroscience” (with Linus Huang), including mechanisms and hierarchy/heterarchy (audio only)Paul Cisek discusses his phylogenetic approach (audio only)

Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon | Laboratory of Cognition & Emotion

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Willard van Orman Quine once said that he had a preference for a desert ontology. This was in an earlier day when concerns with logical structure and ontological simplicity reigned supreme. Ontological genocide was practiced upon whole classes of upper-level or ‘derivative’ entities in the name of elegance, and we were secure in the belief that one strayed irremediably into the realm of conceptual confusion and possible error the further one got from ontic fundamentalism. In those days, one paid more attention to generic worries about possible errors (motivated by our common training in philosophical skepticism) than to actual errors derived from distancing oneself too far from the nitty-gritty details of actual theory, actual inferences from actual data, the actual conditions under which we posited and detected entities, calibrated and ‘burned in’ instruments, identified and rejected artifacts, debugged programs and procedures, explained the mechanisms behind regularities, judged correlations to be spurious, and in general, to the real complexities and richness of actual scientific practice

The Ontology of Complex Systems: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets1 | Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume | Cambridge Core

Carlos Gershenson

[I think I have been getting his surname wrong for years?!]

Version 1 : Received: 6 August 2024 / Approved: 7 August 2024 / Online: 8 August 2024 (12:22:55 CEST)

How to cite: Gershenson, C. Self-Organizing Systems: What, How, and Why?. Preprints 2024, 2024080549. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.0549.v1 Gershenson, C. Self-Organizing Systems: What, How, and Why?. Preprints 2024, 2024080549. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.0549.v1Copy

Abstract

I present a personal account of self-organizing systems. As such, it is necessarily biased and partial. Nevertheless, it should be useful to motivate useful discussions. The relevant contribution is not my attempts at answering questions (maybe all my answers are wrong), but the steps towards framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. With this aim, I start with a notion and examples of self-organizing systems (what?), continue with their properties and related concepts (how?), and close with applications (why?).

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Self-Organizing Systems: What, How, and Why?[v1] | Preprints.org