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More Information About This
Worldview Theme |
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a diamond
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...individual <---> knowledge
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the theme is paired with: #9B
Simply In God's Hands:
Apocalypticism to make Choice
#13 in the Choices We Make cards |
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this theme as presented in
older version of theme
structure:
version 2.0 & 3.0
is this theme new to version 4?--new name
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click to look at the Project Worldview Cultural
Literacy Encyclopedia Related Words,
Beliefs, Background articles for the above choice |
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Project Worldview authored discussion,
Worldview Watch related issues, songs, etc. |
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Discussion from The Worldview
Literacy Book
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Songs
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| Worldview
Watch #72, posted 12/15/2022 Democracy, Citizen Assemblies, and the
US Supreme Court |
| Worldview
Watch #56, April 13 2018:" Pointing Facebook in a 'Dancing With
Systems' Direction" |
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Wikipedia articles related to this theme:
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Living
Systems
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Systems
Thinking
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Systems
Theory
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modeling biological
systems
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Systems
Biology
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Systems
Ecology |
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Emergence
in system
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Systems philosophy
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Complexity |
| feedback loops
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12
Leverage Points to Intervene in a System |
holism in
science |
| Predictive
Analytics
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Network
Effect about the digital snowballing phenomenon |
World
Systems Theory |
| Causal
Layered Analysis |
Object-oriented
analysis and design |
Dynamical
Systems |
| Environmental
Impact Assessment |
Synthetic
Environment for Analysis and Simulations |
The
Fifth Discipline about Peter Senge's work) |
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Information
Cascade |
Quantum
Computing |
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worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this
theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction:
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| #4 Spreading Disinformation
/Tactical Deception |
#5B Vitalism |
#7B Magic |
#8B
Belief in a Personal God |
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#9A Religious
Fundamentalism |
#12A Polytheism,
Animism, Pagan
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#25 Evil
is Out There
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#201B
Positive Expectations |
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #13:
In Human / Computer Hands: Dancing With
Systems |
| Evolutionary
Algorithms (overview from Sandia National Lab) |
| "Dancing
With Systems", article by Donella Meadows |
| Thinking
in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows (read excerpts of this 2008
book at Google Books) |
| The
Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning (from The Dance of
Change, by Peter Senge, etal) |
| Systems
Thinking -- An Operational Perspective of the Universe |
| Living
with Gaia, by James Lovelock (excerpt from book Gaia: The Practical
Science of Planetary Medicine) |
| The
Systems Thinker Newsletter |
| Centre
for Systems Philosophy (Surrey, UK-based non-profit research
institution) |
| Systems
Thinking (from Thinking.net) |
| Santa
Fe Institute ( think tank devoted to "complexity research
expanding the boundaries of science") |
| Overview
of Principia Cybernetica ("an...attempt to
develop a complete cybernetic and evolutionary philosophy") |
| The
Human Brain Project (website of effort to build computer models
to simulate the actual working of the brain) |
| How
Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?
by Dan Rockmore (from The New Yorker Jan 15 2024) |
| The
World Is Falling Apart--Blame the Flukes by Brian Klaas (chaos theory
and predicting human events, review from The Atlantic Jan 16 2024)
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| "Superforecasting
the end of the world:
What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?"
(from The Economist July 15
2023) |
| Quantum
Entanglement Isn't All That Spooky After All by Chris Ferrie (from Scientific
American Feb 13 2023, offers help understanding what's behind quantum
computing --see next link as well==>) |
| IBM
Quantum Computer Programming Composer Website (offers hands-on quantum
computer coding experience tutorial) |
| Living
Earth Simulator: The Ultimate HPC Big Data Application by Michael Feldman (December
2011 news item) |
| "Managing
Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems" by Dirk Helbing (on Future
ICT website, 2009 paper) |
| The
MIT Integrated Global System Model |
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The
Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization's Collapse. How does it
hold up 50 years later? (from Wired –July 2022)
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| The
Social Data Lab (at Stanford University, "acts as a hub
connecting key players in the social data landscape") |
| System
Dynamics Example (illustrating a six step approach) |
| Complexity
Digest ("networking the complexity community") |
| Neuroscience--The
Other Brain Cells (report from The Economist Jan 28 2023) |
| Artificial
Intelligence--Battle of the Labs (report from The Economist Feb
4 2023) |
| Briefing:
Artificial Intelligence (from The Economist June 11 2022) |
| "Computational
Biology -- The Shape of Things to Come" (report about
predicting protein shapes; from The Economist December 5 2020) |
| “Brain
- computer interfaces” (report from The Economist September 5
2020) |
| “Catastrophic
Risks: What's the Worst that could happen?” (report from The
Economist June 27 2020) |
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| “AI
Copernicus ‘discovers’ that Earth orbits the Sun” by
Davide Castelvecchi (article
about neural network that teaches itself the laws of physics in Nature
Nov 8 2019) |
| “The
Uncertainities of Climate Change: Throwing the Dice”
(article from The Economist September
21 2019) |
| Google
reportedly attains 'quantum supremacy' by C. Reichert (report its
quantum computer can far outperform classical ones from CNET Sept
20 2019) |
| Jared
Diamond: There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by
2050 (article by David Wallace-Wells about Diamond’s 2019
book Upheaval from New
York Magazine) |
| “Model
and manage the changing geopolitics of energy” by Andreas
Goldthau, Kirsten Westphal and colleagues (technical paper from Nature
May 1 2019 |
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“Criticality”
by Cesar Hidalgo (Essay 2017 contribution to Edge.org) |
| "Artificial
Intelligence: March of the Machines" (leader for cover story re:
lengthy section on this topic in The Economist June 25 2016) |
| "When
Science Goes Wrong: Computer Says Oops" (report on neuroscience
modeling mishaps from The Economist July 16 2016) |
| "Decisions
Handed Down By Data" (a "What If..." article in The
Economist July 16 2016) |
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"Artificial
Intelligence: machines for thinking" (review of books related to
this topic from The Economist October 3 2015)
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| "Quantum
Computers: A Little Bit, Better" (report from The Economist
June 20 2015) |
| "Virtual
Biology: Computer Worms" (report on effort to make world's first
simulated organism from The Economist May 24, 2014) |
| "The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think"
by James Somers (article about artificial intelligence pioneer D.
Hofstadter from The Atlantic Nov 2013) |
| "Neuromorphic Computing: The Machine of a New Soul"
(article from The Economist August 3 2013) |
| Intuition
Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by
Daniel C. Dennett (review of book printed in June 15 2013 The
Economist ) |
| "Can
Engineers and Scientists Ever Master Complexity?" by John Horgon (Dec
10 2012 post on Scientific American blog) |
| Links
to Systems-Oriented Thinking Websites |
| A
Primer on Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning |
| Applied
Systems Thinking (a look at thinking tools from a systems view) |
| System
Dynamics: A Learning & Problem Solving Approach to Development Policy,
by Khalid Saeed |
| Feedback,
by Piotr Golec ( from Economics Web Institute) |
| A
Summary of the Principles of Hierarchy Theory (hierarchy theory is
"a dialect of general systems theory") |
| Hidden
Order, by John Holland (1995 book about "how
adaptation builds complexity" preview at Google Books) |
| Introduction
to Evolutionary Computing, by A. Eiben and J. Smith (read
excerpts of 2003 book at Google Books) |
| Too
Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge by David Weinberger (read excerpts
of 2012 book at Google Books) |
| The
Black Swan--The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb (read
excerpts of 2010 book at Google Books) |
| Ackoff
Center for the Advancement of Systems Approaches |
| International
Society for the Systems Sciences |
| Global
Vision: Communicating Sustainability (about cybernetics pioneer
Gregory Bateson and cybernetic wisdom) |
| The
Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle with Lucy Shapiro (June
15 2009 UCTV program) |
| "Quantum
Entanglement in Photosynthesis" by Mohan Sarovar, etal
(2009 paper re: a many body quantum system) |
| Building
the Brain: From Simplicity to Complexity with Nick Spitzer (2005 UCTV
program) |
| The
Lifebox, The Seashell and the Soul by Rudy Rucker (read excerpts of
2006 book at Google Books) |
| Information
Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, by Hubert Yockey (preview
of 2005 book at Google Books) |
| "Information
is the Difference Between Life and Matter," by Gert Korthof (explains
ideas of Hubert Yockey) |
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Central Nervous System for the Earth
Project -- Hewlett-Packard (2009 press release about this project)
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| A
New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram (2003 UCTV program about science
of complexity) |
| From
Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning ed. Niels Henrik
(review of this 2003 book) |
| The
Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing by Frank
Vertosick (review of this 2002 book posted on The New York Times
site) |
| A
New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram (website for this 2002 book
re: cellular automata) |
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The
Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, by
Fritjof Capra (from Google Books) |
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"Emergent
Phenomena and the Secrets of Life," by Peter Macklem (2008
article by McGill University researcher) |
| "Is
"Nonreductive Physicalism" An Oxymoron?" by Nancey Murphy
(paper: downward causation ==>neurobiology)
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"Downward
Causation: An Example Involving Human Reproductive & Neuroendocrine
Systems",
by S. Cook |
| "The
Art of Simplexity," by Jeffrey Kluger (excerpt from his Simplexity
book, in Time June 23, 2008) |
| "Restricted
Complexity, General Complexity," by Edgar Morin (2005
paper) |
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Bowen Family
Systems Theory (applies systems thinking to describe and understand
family interactions) |
| Deep
Ethology: Levels of Organization ("Deep Ethology begins with a
behavioral pattern and seeks insight as to its causes and
consequences") |
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Global Vision
Planning Manual (subtitle: cognitive process in
self-organizing systems)
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| quotes
from systems thinkers |