David Ing @daviding@qoto.org

Reassured that qoto.org is on the Wayback Machine @internetarchive .

https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/Qoto.org

Researching #Contextualism, online archive of "#RootMetaphor: The Live Thought of #StephenCPepper" from Paunch 1980 magazine is helpful. Philosopher of aesthetics a follower of #JohnDewey, contemporary of #KurtLewin, senior to #ThomasKuhn, #EricTrist

https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/root-metaphor-the-live-thought-of-stephen-c-pepper-1980/ #SystemsThinking

#Autopoiesis, as coined by #HumbertoMaturana, is in the #Contextualist #RootMetaphor of #StephenCPepper, rather than the organismic root metaphor, say #HowardMancing and #JenniferMarstonWilliam #PurdueLibArts

https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2022/11/23/autopoiesis-as-in-the-contextualist-root-metaphor-mancing-marston-william-2022/

#SystemsThinking

As much as #JudithRosen channels the work of her father, #RobertRosen, the long conversations on #AnticipatorySystems she used to have with him have led to #SystemsThinking ideas that are probably officially unpublished by him, and should be credited to Judith herself.

> I have come to view the consciously aware mind, as experienced by human beings, as a second Anticipatory System which has evolved within and emerged from the living physiology of the human soma. The reason I see the mind as a second Anticipatory System is because there is overwhelming evidence that the human mind has an encoded model for “Self” and for “Health (of Self)” which are independent of the somatic values, as well as its own optimality scale for evaluating sensory information.

> The models for “Self” carried by the mind and the body are independent of one another. This means that they may not match and when they do not, then dysfunction ensues. I consider Gender Dysphoria to be an example of exactly this situation.

"Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems Theory: The Science of Life and Mind" | 2022 at https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/22/4172

A fork of Mastodon is Fedibird, with features more like Twitter. https://github.com/fedibird/mastodon

The lead developer is @noellabo .

The Fedibird site looks to prefer Japanese writers. https://fedibird.com/explore

If anyone knows of English language Fedibird instances, perhaps we could help others to find them.

> Where retweets carry the veneer of an endorsement, a quote tweet can do so much more—particularly given that Twitter, in its infinite generosity, engineered the format so that the quoted tweet doesn’t count toward the character limit. The result is that you can go long above whatever you don’t like. But it’s often the short tweets that contribute the least.

... wrote #ClaireMcNear

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/2/17311616/twitter-retweet-quote-endorsement-function-trolls

Refugees from birdsite missing QT Quote Tweet might reflect on conscious design decisions made in Mastodon core, that could be modified in a specific instance. This means that if a poster REALLY wants QT, he or she has the option to move to an instance where that is supported.

Original 2018 Design Decision at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/#design-decisions

Pointer from discussion thread from 2000 on Quote Toots https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12753

Just because birdsite declares a unitary design approach doesn't mean that Mastodon developers haven't thought about a feature.

‘leverage points’ .... should be read as part of #DonellaMeadows' transition to a post-mechanistic view of the world ... : http://donellameadows.org/dancing-with-systems/

"What does ‘the power to transcend paradigms’ mean?" @antlerboy https://antlerboy.medium.com/what-does-the-power-to-transcend-paradigms-mean-306be913ff2a

Responses at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_what-does-the-power-to-transcend-paradigms-activity-6997453125057949696-XjXv

#SystemsThinking

Epistemic bubbles compared with epistemic bunkers by #KatherineFurman.

> In epistemic bubbles we exclude information simply as part of the normal ways we live our lives – we watch certain shows, we read certain newspapers, we speak to certain friends – and so we miss out on things just because we don’t come into contact with them. But, when we encounter new information, we still believe it. [....]

> The idea of epistemic bunkers stems from ideas in development studies on bunkerisation. In this context, it describes the creation of literal fortified and often militarized compounds for international aid workers to live in while working in hostile environments, such as war zones. They are intended to provide safety from attack, kidnapping, disease, and other ills. But they come with an epistemic cost. Bunkerised aid workers do not have much contact with local communities, making them less able to understand the context. This can be crippling to intervention efforts.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/08/when-the-safety-of-being-right-makes-change-hard-introducing-the-epistemic-bunker/

Via @SFuntowicz

Birdsite refugees may have to learn protocols of symmetric follow of friends, or else they may get muted in Mastodon.

In 2008, the contrast with asymmetric follow was surfaced. #BenjaminEllis wrote:

> Asymmetric follow is a hack in social software to enable ‘relationships’ to scale. It is broadcast, not conversation”

@timoreilly responded:

> Not so. I follow 400; am followed by 16,000. But I respond to lots of people (like you) who I didn’t know before. Not just broadcast.”

"Asymmetrical Follow: A Core Web 2.0 Pattern" | James Governor | Dec. 8, 2008 at https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2008/12/05/assymetrical-follow-a-core-web-20-pattern/