In this armchair-philosophy blog post, I’ll argue that we need to talk about emergence with scientific detachment, and one way of doing that would be… A better way of thinking about emergence
[Not pretending I completely understand this, but a very valuable indicator of the trouble inherent in looking at influences, causes etc – see: systems mapping] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25152459221095823 pdf https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/25152459221095823
Originally posted on Harish's Notebook – My notes… Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science.:
Art by NightCafe In my post today, I am looking further at the idea of variety in Cybernetics. Cybernetics, as Ross Ashby, put is interested in all of the possibilities of a phenomenon as in what all it can do,…
From Ben Sweeting: Writing to draw your attention to a new journal in our field: Enacting Cybernetics – which is published by the UK Cybernetics Society and hosted, open access by Ubiquity Press. Its focus is on exploring and developing the many ways in which cybernetics may be practiced in the world. The journal invites contributions that […]
May 25, 2023 daviding Within the Systems Thinking Ontario community, we were fortunate to have Nenad Rava step up to explain how the Sustainable Development Goals came to be, and relate them to systems change. CONTINUES IN SOURCE: The Sustainable Development Goals: Origins, Context, and Perspectives | ST-ON | 2023-05-08 – Coevolving Innovations
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And on Wednesday I’m hosting the Public Sector Show (29/30 June) – a brilliant conference starting on Tuesday. Free tickets still available at https://publicsectorshow.co.uk/
So the best questions will go into the discussions!
It’s billed as ‘procurement’ but actually is at least partly about how we can reconsider how money is turned into public outcomes!
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