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Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

In May 2021, Humberto Maturana, a Chilean Biologist, died aged 92. In these videos he explains the differences between information transfer within biological and non-biological systems.

We Are Open Cooperative

👋 We’re a not-for-profit worker co-op of strategists, innovators, and facilitators. We design and deliver strategies and tactics to untangle your organisational spaghetti by working hand-in-hand with you and your team, helping everyone learn where to intervene in complex systems. We’ve partnered with plenty of companies, charities, and non-profits that you (and perhaps more importantly, your boss) have heard of. Here’s a few of them:

The AI We Deserve - Boston Review

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

Perverse incentive

Partnerism

Anatomy of an AI System

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

Calculating Empires

Kate Crawford

Chronological dating - Wikipedia

Radiocarbon dating - Wikipedia

Undeciable questions we must decide. - YouTube

BIOLOGY OF LOVE By Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zoller (1996) - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

Stovepipe (organisation)

Coming home | A Working Library

Into the gap.

Consilience - Wikipedia

Consilience (book) - Wikipedia

onian Enchantment

Life is a miracle : an essay against modern superstition : Berry, Wendell, 1934- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Includes bibliographical references

counterpointpress.com/books/life-is-a-miracle/

Open science: hope is other people

Much like open source software, open science is a path to distributed collaboration. By sharing the data from experiments and investigations open and available, scientists can multiply impact and discovery for teams they've never even met.Our gues...

The long-shot plan to save TikTok from a US ban

Why the former owner of the LA Dodgers, Frank McCourt, thinks he’s the right person to rescue TikTok.

Cynefin Framework

Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

Joseph Weizenbaum - Wikipedia

He made it clear that he did not think of himself as a pacifist, believing that there are certainly times where arms are necessary, but by referring to defense as killings and bombings, humanity as a whole would be less inclined to embrace violent reactions so quickly.[9]

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

How to make better software with systems-thinking

Cold reading - Wikipedia

Semiotics - Wikipedia

Exorcising us of the Primer | Andy Matuschak

Benefits of an open network

Frontpage

House of Sound

The scale and culture of waging peace

The spirit of my father Martti is alive at CMI. It is marked by a sense of inclusion, an empathy for counterparts, and a willingness to engage with all when the timing is right.

Classification Systems vs. Taxonomies

A comparison of taxonomies with classification systems.

A Community for Decision Makers

The Uncertainty Project is a community-led playbook of models and techniques that help teams make better decisions, faster.

#NewMacy

#NewMacy Home

Update — #NewMacyMeeting #1 — Why Can’t Cybernetics Tame Pandemics? – Design+Conversation

Magical realism - Wikipedia

Syllabus

How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn

THE POSSIBLE SOCIETY: AN EXPLORATION OF PRACTICAL POLICY ALTERNATIVES FOR THE DECADE AHEAD THE TIDEWATER INN, EASTON, MARYLAND APRIL 26-28, 1979

Language model - Wikipedia

RESEARCH AND PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE [VOL. 10. NOS. 1 - 4, 1966]

INFLUENCE OF ATOMIC BOMB ON INDIRECT METHODS OF WARFARE | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)

OSS MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORTS - MARCH 1944 | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)

ANOMALOUS MENTAL PHENOMENA

WOSC - World Organization for Systems and Cybernetics

WOSC was founded in 1969, with the desire to support the communication of people and organizations related to systems thinking and cybernetics around the world.

International Society for the Systems Sciences

129E144131F2E093FB1E441C737ACF92_SearchForTheManchurianCandidate.rtf.pdf

The Mars Project - Wikipedia

Betterment Metric

Yuri Bezmenov

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

Bearing Witness: Vicarious Trauma and Living With A PTSD Diagnosis – ONA Resources Center

speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes

Mossback- Trinity University Press

In Mossback, David Pritchett traverses geography, history, and genealogy to explore landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigeno...

Fred Hampton

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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Fractal University (NYC) | Andrew Rose | Substack

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William C. Wimsatt

The Word for World Is Forest - Wikipedia

Power Up Your Bluesky Journey – BskyInfo - BskyInfo

Explore a world of tools that transform your Bluesky experience. From sleek clients to smart automation - shape your perfect digital space.

Tangle

Are Five-Year-Olds Better at Reading than Adults?

Yes.

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

LJMU Data Repository

Stafford Beer: The Falcondale Collection. [Data Collection]

Critical thinking

Algedonic signal

organizational development from within | BRANDES WORK LIFE

Let transformation start with ourselves.

The Myth of Objective Data

When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

Strange Attractor • Making sense of complex problems to find ways to act with meaning

We help people to make sense of complex, intractable problems and find ways to act with meaning.

Diatoms of North America

Multiple perspectives on the terms “cyberneticist” versus “cybernetician”: From a group of ASC Conference participants | Emerald Insight

Deep Interlock & Ambiguity

Deep Interlock and Ambiguity sounds like precisely the opposite of something you'd want occurring in software. So we're going to have to unpack it.

FAIR data - Wikipedia

Strategic challenges & coherence for tumultuous times

Inflection points threaten to upend business assumptions and strategies, making strategic coherence more critical than ever. Leaders must identify real business challenges and avoid incoherence.

Civilization Research Institute | The Civilization Research Institute works to support the emergence of a mature global civilization

The Consilience Project | About the Project - The Consilience Project

Civilization Research Institute

What we might become: a topology of sharing - Part I

An essay—written and shared over a number of months—that explores building a public, professional identity, firstly to shape how our peers and colleagues think, and act, and secondly to shape our identity and what we might become.

TBM 324: Goal-O-Rama

Anti-goals (aka NOKRs) explicitly state what you aren't trying to do. They help set expectations and clarify your strategy. A good exercise for setting anti-goals is to ask, "What might someone reasonably assume might happen because of our work that will likely NOT happen?"

Conversation theory to underpin blended learning

The Ontology of Complex Systems: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets

Published in Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 24, No. sup1, 1994)

THE ONTOLOGY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets*

William C. Wimsatt

Knowledge Futures

Knowledge Futures mission is to make information useful.

Hermeneutics - Wikipedia

Authorial intent - Wikipedia

Value theory

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A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

Critical theory

P(Dumb) — Dorian Taylor

Semantic reasoner

Semantic Web

Inference engine

The Open University

Auguste Comte

Consciousness raising - Wikipedia

Our Awareness Controls Human Destiny : NPR

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