ᛕᎥᕼᗷᗴᖇᑎᗴ丅Ꭵᑕᔕ @Kihbernetics@qoto.org

@Harishjosev

I think the lack of #variety is not always be a bad thing. It means things are done in a #consistent and #reliable manner. When you are #competent in something it becomes a simple nearly #trivial activity, a #routine done unconsciously freeing your consciousness for thinking about other more #complex things .

#Diversity is very useful when the system faces #unknown situations and must switch from normal #exploitation activities of acquiring resources for sustainable living to the #exploration of new "pastures" which consume those resources in the short term but may benefit in the long term.

How the system approaches a situation depends very much on how much #knowledge it has about the situation it is in and where this places it on the "#complexity plane".😀

I've drawn the picture below as a reaction to the current inclination of prominent #ChangeManagement the(r)orists frowning at "military" style #CommandAndControl or #C2 organizational methods while promoting #FlatOrganizations without #MiddleManagement and with no need for #Planning (everything will change anyway), as a far better, more #Agile way of dealing with #Complexity.

This may be true if the organization is operating and struggling to survive on the left side of this "complexity plane", but if it wants to mature and "get somewhere in life" it better starts aiming for the other side by collecting, documenting and using "lessons learned", planning for and working towards wherever it wants to be in the future.

@ceoln

Please do. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Pattee has more than 100 papers freely available on the Academia site and each one of them is a gem.

He is the only author I know with whom I have difficulty finding anything in their thinking that needs to be corrected or argued about.

A momentous recent paper from the most consequential thinker on the matter of the #originoflife, #information, and #biosemiotics has only 124 views and I must be responsible for at least a dozen.

#HowardHPattee

"Folding is entirely a lawful physical process, leaving neither freedom nor necessity for interpretation. Similarly, the initial converse action-to-symbol conversion of sensory inputs also leaves no freedom for interpretation until after the action-to-symbol conversion"

https://www.academia.edu/66621846/Symbol_Grounding_Precedes_Interpretation_Commentary_to_the_target_article_by_Terrence_Deacon_2021

"#Causal #analysis goes one step further than standard #statistical analysis; its aim is to infer not only beliefs or probabilities under #static conditions but also the #dynamics of beliefs under changing conditions, for example, changes induced by treatments or external interventions."

"There is nothing in the joint distribution of symptoms and diseases to tell us that curing the former would or would not cure the latter."

J. Pearl - Causal inference in statistics

Statistics Surveys Vol. 3 (2009)
p. 99

https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r350.pdf

"#Correlation does not imply causation, but #causation implies a specific pattern of correlations, and that must count for something."

"Testing a #hypothesis is actually not so much about trying to confirm it, but about trying to falsify it."

http://www.the100.ci/2022/11/18/causal-inference-hypothesis-testing-all-at-once/

A #control #hierarchy is just the folded "#flow" of #information.

#Causation is #linear, while #control requres #recursive #feedback loops.

It's interesting that Ashby never uses the phrase "control system" in the book. For him, it seems, the #observer is also the (potential) #controller.

Complexity is in the eye of the beholder (observer)

Ashby: "In this book I use the words “very large” to imply that some definite #observer en, with definite resources and techniques, and that the system (is in) some practical way, too large for him; so that he cannot observe completely, or control it completely, or carry out the calculations for prediction completely. In other words, he says the system (is) “very large” if in some way it beats *him* by its richness and #complexity."

p.62

"#Cybernetics might, in fact, be defined as the study of systems that are open to #energy but closed to #information and
control—systems that are “information-tight”."

W. Ross Ashby (1956): An Introduction to Cybernetics, (Chapman & Hall, London): now available electronically.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

The 1, 2, 3, and 4 of #dynamical_systems:
1️⃣ one #system with a purpose
2️⃣ two #processes (linear work and recursive growth)
3️⃣ three #functions (selection, storage, and production)
4️⃣ four #variables (disturbance, difference, control, and output)