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Pathologies is synonymous with diseases. The suffix "path" is used to indicate a disease, e.g. psychopath. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological (more)

John Cutler: TBM 234: Maintenance, KTLO, and BAU. I've always been bothered by how teams use words and phrases like maintenance, keeping the lights on (KTLO), and business as usual. I get what they mean, but there always seems to be a stigma around this work. (more)

Casey Winters: Why Consumer Subscription (B2C SaaS) Is So Hard, and What to Do About It. Shortly after I got into tech, investors started to fall in love with subscription business models, mostly on the B2B side. (more)

Science Fiction Writer and Futurist Karl Schroeder on Digital Self-Sovereignty at OODAcon 2022. Find below a transcript of OODA CEO Matt Devost’s conversation with Schroeder about his book Stealing Worlds and how he integrated his ideas about self-sovereignty into his worldbuilding for the book (more)

Creator of MetaFilter. (more)

Hive Mind, or something else? Intelligence Increase? (more)

a Model, typically based on Bottom-Up Emergence from the behavior of individual actors. (more)

messiness (more)

The theme of the Complexity International Jounal is the field of complex systems, the generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes. (more)

A Systems Thinking tool. Appears in some Jerry Weinberg books. Places emphasis on finding Loops. (more)

Erik Hoel: From AI to abortion, the scientific failure to understand consciousness harms the nation. This nation of mine is bulging at the edges, straining to contain all its different and incompatible worldviews. I am unsure that, in the last decades of living memory, there have ever been such fundamental differences between how people want to live their life (more)

New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality. IN HIS 1890 opus, The Principles of Psychology, William James invoked Romeo and Juliet... Erik Hoel, a 29-year-old theoretical neuroscientist and writer, quoted the passage in a recent essay in which he laid out his new mathematical explanation of how consciousness and agency arise. (more)

In the philosophy of mind, panpsychism (/pænˈsaɪkɪzəm/) is the view that the mind or a mindlike aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.[1] It is also described as a theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe."[2] It is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and has been ascribed to philosophers including Thales, Plato, Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, William James,[3] Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and Galen Strawson.[1] In the 19th century, panpsychism was the default philosophy of mind in Western thought, but it saw a decline in the mid-20th century with the rise of logical positivism.[3][4] Recent interest in the hard problem of consciousness and developments in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and quantum physics have revived interest in panpsychism in the 21st century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

In other words, the criterion of truth is reduced absolutely to the immediate validity of the application... Percy Bridgman's elaboration of Operationalism, the development of Pragmatism which says that a concept is not meaningful unless it can be reduced to a sequence of human actions. http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#pragmatism (more)

the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it (more)

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənʃtaɪn, -staɪn/ VIT-gən-s(h)tyne;[7] German: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈjoːzɛf 'joːhan ˈvɪtɡn̩ʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS[7] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.[8] He was one of the early 20th century's prominent logicians[8] and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism".[b] Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell's article "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

Integrative thinking is a field which was originated by Graham Douglas in 1986.[1][2][3] He describes Integrative Thinking as the process of integrating intuition, reason and imagination in a human mind with the objective of developing a holistic continuum of strategy, tactics, action, review and evaluation. Integrative Thinking may be learned by applying the SOARA (Satisfying, Optimum, Achievable Results Ahead) Process devised by Graham Douglas to any problem. The SOARA Process employs a set of triggers of internal and external knowledge. This facilitates associations between what may have been regarded as unrelated parts of a problem... Integrative thinking is a discipline and methodology for solving complex or wicked problems. That theory was originally created by Roger Martin... Integrative Thinking is influenced by and connected to a number of intellectual traditions. Most notably, it is influenced by the pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce and his notion of abductive reasoning, the falsificationism (Falsifiability) of Karl Popper and the management theories of Chris Argyris and James March. It is also related to the work of Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_thinking cf systems thinking?

Imre Lakatos (UK: /ˈlækətɒs/,[6] US: /-toʊs/; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes....Lakatos's second major contribution to the philosophy of science was his model of the "research programme",[20] which he formulated in an attempt to resolve the perceived conflict between Karl Popper's falsificationism (Falsifiability) and the revolutionary structure of science described by Thomas Kuhn. Popper's standard of falsificationism was widely taken to imply that a theory should be abandoned as soon as any evidence appears to challenge it, while Kuhn's descriptions of scientific activity were taken to imply that science is most fruitful during periods in which popular, or "normal", theories are supported despite known anomalies. Lakatos' model of the research programme aims to combine Popper's adherence to empirical validity with Kuhn's appreciation for conventional consistency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos