@unklar
But seriously. It is a proven fact that just enough #constraint is better for #creativity:
Recent surveys show that managers tend to consider compliance restrictions and a lack of resources as the main obstacles to innovation. This common wisdom suggests eradicating all constraints: by getting rid of rules and boundaries, creativity, and innovative thinking will thrive. Our research, however, challenges this wisdom and suggests that managers can innovate better by embracing constraints.
https://hbr.org/2019/11/why-constraints-are-good-for-innovation
This was already tried numerous times throughout history. It is beyond me why would someone think civilization states may work in this day and age. “Civilised” or not, a state is as good or bad as the relationships it maintains with its own people and its neighbors.
#Culture is what every tribe and community developed to affirm its sense of #identity. Some cultures established #states with clear #borders that further nurtured their cultures (and) were led by “men of prowess”: chiefs or priests, princes or kings, even emperors.
#Civilization began with the idea that the “civilized” had to confront the “barbaric.” Men of vision set out to find meaning in life beyond their own borders. They ranged from prophets and teachers who inspired those with wealth and power to spread their message to everyone.
https://www.noemamag.com/modernizing-ancient-civilizations-for-todays-planetary-challenges
OK. A couple of remarks (from the bottom up):
1️⃣There are only two domains: the #physical (external) #data domain, which also contains the "virtual" electronic representation, and the (internal) #cognitive domain of interaction between #information and #knowledge.
2️⃣There are no external "sources" of information, knowledge, or understanding. These are all #produced within the "cognitive domain" of the individual learning system (or organization) from external data.
3️⃣Situational awareness, intelligence, insight, foresight, and understanding are all different terms describing a current knowledge #state of the dynamical (learning) system.
The bottom line is that you can only use your existing knowledge to extract information from external data. You afterward combine this new information with your existing knowledge (learn) which may change your internal knowledge state and understanding of the state of affairs in the physical domain.
Simple😀
Nice. Thanks. A military doctrine document? No wonder it is so convoluted😀.
I'll let you know what I think is wrong with it after I give a closer look. Thanks again.
Found where? Seems like it was taken from a book or a paper.
I find it pretty confusing just by itself. Three information domains, external information providing intelligence sources while having nothing to do with internal knowledge which is listed under other sources?
I wonder if Figure 2.1. may provide some better understanding?
Is there some explanatory text going with this picture?
Why would you want to “toughen up” a highly sensitive [precise instrument?
1️⃣ #HSPs are naturally more empathic and caring to the needs of other people
2️⃣ HSPs are trusted by their peers because of their honesty and conscientiousness
3️⃣ HSPs notice little details that others might miss
4️⃣ HSPs are very creative and can appreciate things at a deeper level
5️⃣ HSPs have more insight into their mental and emotional processes
6️⃣ HSPs feel more connected to the world around them
7️⃣ HSPs feel positive emotions more deeply
#Fundamentalism attempts to give to non-scientific ways of #knowing the status that is given to #science, but it omits the #openness of science to new #evidence that is essential to that status.
M.C. Bateson - in Legacy for Living Systems, pg 22
For millions of viewers, “it’s just a Pavlovian response to put on Fox News at eight o’clock,” Lawrence said. “Tucker needs the eight-o’clock hour on Fox News way more than Fox News needs Tucker.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/watching-tucker-carlson-for-work
The scale of importance runs probably in this order:
1️⃣ #Health
2️⃣ #Education
3️⃣ #Defense
A healthy and educated population is better equipped for defending a society that assures those basic needs are satisfied.
As long as there is no room for economic #exploitation or political #manipulation in such a society.
Finally, someone who recognizes #Education of the general population is as (if not more) important as #Defense.
Nothing compares with the reality of this scene from #GalaxyQuest 😃
I was wondering where #NoemaMag and Maçães got the idea about the “decline of Western liberalism”:
https://www.ft.com/video/a49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08
The illiberal promise is that once we’ve dispensed with liberalism’s inconvenience, uncertainty, and constant rumbles of public dispute, you will end up empowered. Your morals will be enshrined in law. Your culture will be propagated by the government. Your friends will be rewarded and your enemies punished.
But a litany of wars, inquisitions, and purges show that for almost everyone, this promise is a lie. Without liberalism, you probably won’t end up empowered. You’ll end up bearably oppressed, if you’re lucky, or persecuted or dead if you’re not.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-liberalism-in-us-will-only-lead-to-violence
I would not dismiss Western #Liberalism so fast as Bruno Maçães, Portugal’s former secretary of state for European affairs does in this propaganda article from #NoemaMag.
Western Liberalism was on its “deathbed” many times but somehow always managed to defeat any #Civilization #State lined up as its replacement, with either nationalist (#Fascist) or inter-nationalist (#Comunist) roots.
The Future of #Democracy according to #noemamagazine is in the Chinese model of a "Civilization State" with no Italian food.🤔
People often interpret Ashby’s Law (after W. Ross Ashby) as if the system’s internal states must have the same level of variety as its environment in order to survive, which implies that the system should be able to respond (react) to every little disturbance from the environment.
This is not completely true because, on the lowest, #regulation, level, the system blocks #variety from an (environmental) #disturbance reaching the (internal, system protected) #EssentialVariables in two ways:
1️⃣ #Passive isolation (sheltering) from most environmental disturbances, and
2️⃣ #Active reaction to (parring with) the remaining disturbance that managed to break through this passive protection.
from “Intro to #Cybernetics”
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
If you want to know what someone’s #character really is, watch them when they are in a position of #power:
Bonhoeffer’s argument is that the more someone becomes part of the establishment, the less an individual they become. A charismatic, exciting outsider, bursting with intelligence and sensible policies, becomes imbecilic the moment he takes office. It’s as if, “slogans, catchwords and the like… have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.”
https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ