Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #74

Hello everyone, here’s the first Revue-free weekly update from me, thanks to Amber Griffiths who is now assisting. 

Likes, comments, and shares on any and all of this are very welcome and send a nice warning signal in these cold days! As well as confirming that someone is reading these things….

My conundrum of the day is this tweet:

Dan Goodman, @neuralreckoning

Naive question (maybe): Is there a definition of ‘computation’ akin to the mathematical definition of information (entropy/MI)? I don’t mean Turing machines. e.g. something that could determine the extent to which a group of neurons/synapses are signalling versus computing?

https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7050535478767840214&li_theme=light

I gave (in a quote tweet and a reply) a couple of kinda-answers. What do you think?

The problem with consulting

An invitation to the RedQuadrant tool shed

https://www.systemspractice.org/events/scio-uk-virtual-open-meeting-january-2023

https://www.systemspractice.org/events/fsp1-facilitation-skills-systems-practice-interventions-05d

International Society for Systems Sciences (ISSS) conference in South Africa 17-23 June 2023 

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows (Book Summary) | Sloww

Carl Bergstrom Presents “The crisis of human collective decision-making in a social media world” January 31, 4-5pm, Michigan University, USA

Review of Net Zero – GOV.UK

Metaphorum Conference (20 years after Stafford’s passing): Viability through emancipation – or the hidden agenda of viability, Manchester, UK: 08 – 10 June, 2023

More on living systems not following the law of entropy? Morten Vind-Visby in the Systems Sciences group on Facebook

Maximum entropy network states for coalescence processes

Paul Watzlawick: MRI’s mentors (Bateson, Jackson, Erickson, von Foerster) – YouTube (put up by Mark McKergow)

Self-organisation, (M, R)–systems and enactive cognitive science

Levelling up allocation ‘not based on evidence or deprivation’ https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/109720852705190961

Can anyone tell me what is going on here?! This seems… counter-typical, unexpected, and presumably it’s making a point. Or is it just an honest comment?! BCP audit delay ‘real concern for council’ https://www.room151.co.uk/audit/bcp-audit-delay-real-concern-for-council/

Nearly a year ago – hardly less relevant as ‘levelling up’ is discussed again, in a different light… Commissioning, community, and ‘levelling up’ – a critical moment https://bit.ly/3HgTKQi (and also https://bit.ly/3ZONEOv) https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/109714726598649143