ᛕᎥᕼᗷᗴᖇᑎᗴ丅Ꭵᑕᔕ @Kihbernetics@qoto.org
- https://twitter.com/Kihbernetics
#Kihbernetics is the study of #Complex #Dynamical #Systems with #Memory which is very different from all other #SystemsThinking approaches. Kihbernetic theory and principles are derived primarily from these three sources:
1️⃣ #CE_Shannon's theory of #Information and his description of a #Transducer,
2️⃣ #WR_Ashby's #Cybernetics and his concept of #Transformation, and
3️⃣ #HR_Maturana's theory of #Autopoiesis and the resulting #Constructivism
Although applicable to any dynamical system with memory (mechanisms, organisms, or organizations) we developed our Kihbernetic worldview mostly to help people navigate their #organization through times of #change.
We define* an organization as:
"An integrated composite of people, products, and processes that provide a capability to satisfy a stated need or objective."
*Definition of the word "system" in MIL_STD_499B
#People are at the forefront of our thinking (the #who and #why are we doing this for and/or with?).
We then focus our efforts on understanding all the functions or #Processes in your organization (#how and #when something happens or has to happen?).
Finally, we get to analyze the #Products and/or services that you put on the market but are mostly interested in the tools that you use or may need to buy or develop in order to fully integrate your production system (the plan for #what and #where things will happen?).
Our goal is to make the people of your organization self-reliant to the point that they shouldn't need our assistance with the continuous maintenance and adaptation of the system.
In any case, we've got your back while you do the heavy lifting of establishing a better future for your organization!
Joined Nov 2022
Care to provide an example of this "physical memory"?
Not according to Howard Pattee, they don't.
Read the paper and see if you can find a flaw in his reasoning. I can't.
>#Life must have emerged from the physical world. This emergence must be understood if our knowledge is not to degenerate (more than it has already) into a collection of disjoint specialized disciplines.
>... #physics and #biology require different levels of #models ... physical theory is described by rate-dependent dynamical #laws that have no #memory, while #evolution depends, at least to some degree, on #control of dynamics by rate-independent memory #structures."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12009802_The_physics_of_symbols_Bridging_the_epistemic_cut
>"Real #creativity comes from the #unconscious. You can make tiny improvements using the logical part of your mind ... anything that's really new it's going to come up from the unconscious, and that can only happen if you're in a state of #play."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQ9_stT2Kc
Politics is easy. Just feed them and let them think they are in charge 😂
>When compared to the pugilistic congressional tech hearings from Facebook to TikTok in the past, Tuesday’s rendition was surprisingly cordial—likely buoyed by the fact that Altman shared a dinner with around 60 lawmakers the evening before, where he reportedly gave them a demonstration of ChatGPT’s capabilities.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-congress-fell-for-openai-and-sam-altmans-ai-magic-tricks
I want to share this jewel that I found while looking for texts about #HV_Foerster's *non-trivial machine*.
It reminded me of how I always felt that the multidisciplinary game weaving together structures from different sciences with music in #H_Hesse's book *The Glass Bead Game* (*Das Glasperlenspiel*) published in 1943 (1949 in English) describes #Cybernetics, the very thing #N_Wiener was working on at the same time.
https://www.academia.edu/67973857/Creating_von_Foersters_non_Trivial_Machine_in_Digital_audio
Shall I be reading "scientific papers" or articles with a title that ends with a question mark❓
**NO**‼️
>Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
>A #sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its #interpretant sign determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with something, C, its #object, as that in which itself stands to C.
#CS_Peirce (1902)
In #Kihbernetics a sign is the #model describing (documenting) a #system ("mental model") abstracted from a real #phenomenon (object) by an #observer (the interpretant).
>#Cybernetics stands to the real machine - electronic, mechanical, neural, or economic - much as geometry stands to a real object
in our terrestrial space.
>It takes as its subject matter the domain of *all possible machines*,
and is only secondarily interested if informed that some of them have not yet been made, either by Man or by Nature.
#WR_Ashby (1956) - *An Introduction to Cybernetics*
I'll give you that you may have a #structure as a #record of how one or more (finite number of) variables change in time (#trajectories) describing some observed behavior, but this is not what Wolfram's "pyramids" are. They look more like inverted sedimentation structures.
Also, as far as I understand cosmology, all the "pixels" in the expanding universe were there from the beginning. The expanding universe is not creating any new pixels as Wolfram's automatons do.
#HH_Pattee
"Evolving Self-reference: Mater, Symbols, and Semantic Closure"
https://www.academia.edu/2947945/Evolving_Self_reference_Matter_Symbols_and_Semantic_Closure
#DNA is not a #blueprint describing the #structure or the #function of an #organism.
It is rather a #recipe (an algorithm) that describes (#control) the #process of #construction, i.e. specifies what #action the #constructor has to perform at any moment depending on the constructor's own #state and that of its #environment.
The #function of the #organism is defined by its #structure as constructed by following the #DNA algorithm. Besides the functions involved in this process of self-construction and maintenance, a mature organism is also involved in the #production of #artifacts (messages, seeds) for dissemination (#communication) in the environment.
Reading Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" to see what's all the fuss about and I think he's got the basics wrong.
For starters, his "cellular automata" do not produce #behavior but #structure, and all of the #complexity originates from the fact that every new row has two more pixels.
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p27--how-do-simple-programs-behave/
Conway's "Game of Life" cellular automata can be said to produce #behavior as they maintain their initial dynamic #structure while moving through the "dead environment" of empty cells and will change their behavior when interacting with the static or dynamic structures of other "live" automatons.
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boosted
Astute observation from social psychologist Michelle Ryan on Twitter’s decision to hire a female CEO during its time of crisis!
https://twitter.com/shellkryan/status/1656814584106471424
“Research shows that women and people from ethnic minorities are more likely to be chosen to lead a company, sports team, or even country when it is in crisis mode.”
Yes, unrealistic expectations and pressure from shareholders, lack of knowledge, and distrust in the people that work for them are big factors why managers hire consultants. The book expands in detail on that.
It is not all the consultancy's fault. They just provide a service for which there is demand.
Beware big (and small) consultancies that promise *quick* **and** *lasting* change. The only legitimate reason to hire a consultant is to bring your organization into a position where you don't need them anymore.
And don't forget that it is you that will have to do all the hard work during the transformation and live with the results.
A book everyone who thinks of hiring a consultant should read first:
The next logical direction for #AI evolution should be to implement a new reward system that lets them be wrong and enables their #curiosity:
>"As the agent learns, its #prediction_model becomes less and less wrong so that the #reward signal decreases, and the agent must explore other, more surprising situations in order to maximize the reward signal."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/clever-machines-learn-how-to-be-curious-20170919/
According to #HvFoerster, the *integrated functional circuit* for #cognition requires these three faculties:
1️⃣ #Perception - without which the system cannot detect and internally represent environmental regularities,
2️⃣ #Memory - without which the system has only throughput (cannot learn)
3️⃣ #Prediction - or the faculty of drawing #inferences, without which *perception degenerates into #sensation and memory into #recording*.
*Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition* - pp 105-106
"The word “#heuristic” was invoked all through the summer of 1956. Instead of trying to analyze the brain to develop #machine_intelligence, some participants focused on the operational steps needed to solve a given problem."
- https://twitter.com/Kihbernetics
#Kihbernetics is the study of #Complex #Dynamical #Systems with #Memory which is very different from all other #SystemsThinking approaches. Kihbernetic theory and principles are derived primarily from these three sources:
1️⃣ #CE_Shannon's theory of #Information and his description of a #Transducer,
2️⃣ #WR_Ashby's #Cybernetics and his concept of #Transformation, and
3️⃣ #HR_Maturana's theory of #Autopoiesis and the resulting #Constructivism
Although applicable to any dynamical system with memory (mechanisms, organisms, or organizations) we developed our Kihbernetic worldview mostly to help people navigate their #organization through times of #change.
We define* an organization as:
"An integrated composite of people, products, and processes that provide a capability to satisfy a stated need or objective."
*Definition of the word "system" in MIL_STD_499B
#People are at the forefront of our thinking (the #who and #why are we doing this for and/or with?).
We then focus our efforts on understanding all the functions or #Processes in your organization (#how and #when something happens or has to happen?).
Finally, we get to analyze the #Products and/or services that you put on the market but are mostly interested in the tools that you use or may need to buy or develop in order to fully integrate your production system (the plan for #what and #where things will happen?).
Our goal is to make the people of your organization self-reliant to the point that they shouldn't need our assistance with the continuous maintenance and adaptation of the system.
In any case, we've got your back while you do the heavy lifting of establishing a better future for your organization!
Joined Nov 2022
