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
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
#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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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.”
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.”
Producing electricity while protecting your crops from extreme weather. Brilliant!
The citron of Calabria in southern Italy had almost died out from extreme weather and lack of economic value. But growing the crop under a canopy of solar panels has given the fruit a new lease of life – with lessons for many climate-stressed crops.
Philosopher Mary Brenda Hesse
considered the use of #metaphors and #analogies in scientific models.
Instead of obsessing over the justification of scientific knowledge, she highlighted the need to think about its generation. How do scientists develop their ideas about the world and come to discover new things?
The cognitive power of metaphors, in her view, resided in their capacity to create similarity. The use of metaphors is an act of co-creating, not discovering, similarities between a metaphor and its physical target system. Such an act of metaphorical co-creation is inevitably shaped by cultural context.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-women-philosophers-often-erased-from-collective-memory
Ruskin defines:
#Science = The #knowledge of things whether Ideal or Substantial.
#Art = The #modification of Substantial things by our #Substantial Power.
#Literature = The #modification of Ideal things by our #Ideal Power.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6715877M/The_eagle%27s_nest.
The whole argument of AI-generated art discussed in the article below is moot. Whatever it is that #AI generates it certainly isn’t #art.
“In science you must not talk before you know. In art you must not talk before you do. In literature you must not talk before you think.”
Ruskin - The Eagle’s Nest (1872)
AI is not “doing” #science or #art or #literature. AI is just talking.
We can work better under the assumption that there is no such thing as #AI. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we’ll start managing our new #technology intelligently.
Jaron Lanier
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
Paraphrased #HH_Pattee from the same source:
This “#error_duality” (error in the #descriptions or error in the #operation) can be identified at all organizational levels:
➡️ Computer programs may have either an error in the program itself (#software error) or an error may happen because of the machine (#hardware error) that executes an otherwise correct program.
➡️ At higher levels it is possible to make an error in the choice of algorithm which is being programmed or even make a mistake in the choice of problem that the developed algorithm is supposed to solve.
➡️ Similarly in social and political organizations we distinguish between a faulty policy and the failure to execute a policy properly.
In other words, we try to distinguish between the error in our #models of reality which leads to incorrect policies (#predictions and descriptions), and the error in #control #constraints which leads to a failure of a (good) policy implementation.
Biological physicist #HH_Pattee on the futility of the attempts to create artificial #intelligence by reverse engineering #language.
“No amount of #semiotic information, thought, or discourse alone can cause the body to move. It takes some #physics. As Waddington has pointed out, the first function of #language was to cause #actions, not to make #statements.”
- 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
