"What got us here, wont get us there!" Pirelli july 2014 Mebs Loghdey
I have developed and delivered two fresh and interesting sessions for Hyper Island, Unilever, Mercer and Pirelli. These sessions were developed as a response the Innovation and Sustainability imperatives faced by most managers.
Entitled "What got us here won't get us there!", this sessions teach managers about
1. Language, metaphor and reframing
2. Q-storming - designing powerful questions
3. Systems thinking
Managers leave these sessions better equipped to engage a future that is at once digital, mobile, social, green and data rich.
2012 october pj cultural intermediation project and progressPhil Jones
This document provides an overview of the "Cultural intermediation: project and progress" research project. The project aims to identify ways to enhance cultural intermediation as a mechanism for connecting communities to the creative economy. It will examine cultural intermediation historically and critically evaluate the role of intermediaries. The research will also explore how intermediation can better connect hard-to-reach communities and design interventions to improve effectiveness. The project involves multiple work packages and universities over multiple years and will produce both academic and practice-based outputs. An update is provided on initial staffing, scoping studies, and planned presentations for the project continuity day.
20130903 what did you say? interculture communication [hamburg]Frederick Zarndt
This document discusses intercultural communication and misunderstandings. It provides quotes and principles about the importance of effective communication to build understanding between people from different cultures and avoid assumptions. It notes that a lack of communication or poor communication can lead to more assumptions and misunderstandings.
1. The document provides an overview of changing organizational culture and discusses various approaches and challenges.
2. It recommends starting small by focusing on individuals and utilizing frameworks to introduce incremental changes while keeping a long term vision.
3. References are made to various thought leaders and their works on topics like change management, leadership, and organizational behavior to provide guidance on influencing culture change.
The document discusses strategies for recruiting and retaining volunteers of different generations based on their shared experiences and preferences. It outlines the key attributes and motivations of the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X, and how to approach, retain, and recognize each group. Younger generations like Generation Y may be highly interested in volunteer opportunities that allow them to see direct impact and combine interests with meaningful causes. Understanding generational differences can help create more effective volunteer programs.
Presentation given at H+ 2011 Melbourne which turned out to be much about problem merging terminology from independent silo-based framings of complexity theory.
This 8-part documentary series discusses creating a more sustainable future. It highlights the environmental destruction occurring and rising inequality. Unexamined assumptions and the illusion of separation from nature are causing problems. However, grassroots movements are growing and solutions exist. Everyone has a role to play through openness, community, and committing to positive change. The future remains unwritten, and hopeful messages are shared about collective actions leading to a just world.
"What got us here, wont get us there!" Pirelli july 2014 Mebs Loghdey
I have developed and delivered two fresh and interesting sessions for Hyper Island, Unilever, Mercer and Pirelli. These sessions were developed as a response the Innovation and Sustainability imperatives faced by most managers.
Entitled "What got us here won't get us there!", this sessions teach managers about
1. Language, metaphor and reframing
2. Q-storming - designing powerful questions
3. Systems thinking
Managers leave these sessions better equipped to engage a future that is at once digital, mobile, social, green and data rich.
2012 october pj cultural intermediation project and progressPhil Jones
This document provides an overview of the "Cultural intermediation: project and progress" research project. The project aims to identify ways to enhance cultural intermediation as a mechanism for connecting communities to the creative economy. It will examine cultural intermediation historically and critically evaluate the role of intermediaries. The research will also explore how intermediation can better connect hard-to-reach communities and design interventions to improve effectiveness. The project involves multiple work packages and universities over multiple years and will produce both academic and practice-based outputs. An update is provided on initial staffing, scoping studies, and planned presentations for the project continuity day.
20130903 what did you say? interculture communication [hamburg]Frederick Zarndt
This document discusses intercultural communication and misunderstandings. It provides quotes and principles about the importance of effective communication to build understanding between people from different cultures and avoid assumptions. It notes that a lack of communication or poor communication can lead to more assumptions and misunderstandings.
1. The document provides an overview of changing organizational culture and discusses various approaches and challenges.
2. It recommends starting small by focusing on individuals and utilizing frameworks to introduce incremental changes while keeping a long term vision.
3. References are made to various thought leaders and their works on topics like change management, leadership, and organizational behavior to provide guidance on influencing culture change.
The document discusses strategies for recruiting and retaining volunteers of different generations based on their shared experiences and preferences. It outlines the key attributes and motivations of the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X, and how to approach, retain, and recognize each group. Younger generations like Generation Y may be highly interested in volunteer opportunities that allow them to see direct impact and combine interests with meaningful causes. Understanding generational differences can help create more effective volunteer programs.
Presentation given at H+ 2011 Melbourne which turned out to be much about problem merging terminology from independent silo-based framings of complexity theory.
This 8-part documentary series discusses creating a more sustainable future. It highlights the environmental destruction occurring and rising inequality. Unexamined assumptions and the illusion of separation from nature are causing problems. However, grassroots movements are growing and solutions exist. Everyone has a role to play through openness, community, and committing to positive change. The future remains unwritten, and hopeful messages are shared about collective actions leading to a just world.
The document discusses leadership and the new science 20 years after the publication of Leadership and the New Science in 1992. It touches on questions of how we got to the current moment, what role leaders should play going forward, and structures each day of content around teachings, small and large group discussions, and personal reflection. The overall tone is one of open inquiry into leadership, human capacities, and finding purpose and meaning in challenging times.
The document outlines an original vision for abundance, indefinite lifespans, ever-growing intelligence and knowledge. It explores topics like energy, resources, space, longevity and intelligence augmentation. Specific areas discussed include solar power, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence, brain emulation, medical nanotechnology and more. The document also discusses organizational ideas like forming a foundation to fund relevant ventures and using online tools like wikis, forums and blogs to build an internet presence and community around discussing and pursuing this vision of the future.
This document discusses concepts of space and place. It defines space as broader and more abstract than place, describing space as possibility and openness while place represents pause and location. Place only emerges as space becomes familiar and valued. The ideas of space and place require each other for definition. Sensing and inhabiting places is how we come to understand them. Communities and identities are also discussed in relation to places and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to places. The document examines challenges involved in creating change within communities.
Globalization is influencing higher education trends in South Korea. South Korean universities are increasingly adopting Western-style curriculum and programs to attract more international students and compete globally. However, this is also contributing to "brain drain" as many Korean students choose to study and work abroad after graduation. The effects of globalization in higher education are creating both educational and cultural changes in South Korean classrooms.
Dystopian Literature, Millennials, and TeachingGordon Harvey
This document discusses how teaching methods may need to change to better engage millennial students. Millennials grew up with technology and have high expectations for teamwork and challenge. However, they also desire structure and protection. Dystopian stories popular with millennials externalize their internal struggles under authoritarian control and desire for independent thought. While resistance to change exists, teachers should consider providing community, feedback, and diverse learning to match millennial students' strengths and address their pressures.
Coyote teaching is a mentorship approach that focuses on guiding students to find their own answers through questioning rather than direct instruction. It aims to inspire independence by challenging students with analogies, environmental learning experiences, and stories at the edge of their comfort zones. Some key aspects of coyote teaching include using the Socratic method of answering questions with more questions, allowing students to learn from their environment, and creating opportunities for students to problem solve authentic challenges. The goal is to pass on traditions and skills while pushing students to grow without pushing them too far outside their limits.
Resilience an introduction and promoting a cultureResilient Are We
This document discusses the concept of resilience from various perspectives. It defines resilience as both the ability of a system to return to equilibrium after a disturbance, and the amount of disturbance a system can absorb before changing. It examines resilience in individuals, organizations, and systems. It argues that understanding resilience is important given increasing high-impact events globally. It also discusses promoting resilience among disabled people and establishing a disability resilience network to share experiences and understanding of resilience.
Authentically connected: Care, emotion and the challenge of technologyPaul Treadwell
Interactive slides removed for upload - Why care matters for technologists and our usage of technology:
How do we make technology mediated spaces human spaces?
How does the technology we choose shape interactions?
What are the risks, and rewards, for opening these spaces?
Take charge of the political narrative by knowing your values and framing the debate. Presentation discusses George Lakoff's framing principles discussed in the book"Don't Think of an Elephant!"
Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift that follows the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver. The third voyage describes Gulliver's visit to the floating island of Laputa, inhabited by scientists so focused on abstract thought that they have become impractical. He then visits Balnibarbi's Grand Academy, where philosophers seek to destroy the old world before building a new one. The voyage criticizes aspects of modern science, philosophy and politics.
This document summarizes research on communities engaged in low-carbon transitions. It discusses a project that studied 4 case sites in the UK over 1 year, including Lammas eco-village. At Lammas, residents have worked to change outsider perceptions from seeing them as hippies to a well-organized community. Forming community within Lammas requires ongoing effort to balance individualism with communal obligations while under pressure to meet sustainability targets. The visibility of the project is both necessary to change perceptions but also presents challenges for community building.
This document provides an overview of a workshop on shaping sustainable futures. It introduces Forum for the Future and their work on sustainability challenges. The workshop will explore citizen-driven innovation, scenarios for sustainable societies in Europe in 2050, and how participants can help enable positive futures. Activities include discussing innovations seen today, key changes over 20 years, and what lifestyles may be like for different 2050 scenarios. The goal is for participants to reflect on pathways to sustainable futures and how they can support each other as citizen innovators.
This document provides a series of nonsensical definitions or examples for letters of the alphabet. Some key points include:
- Letter A defines various types of alignments and categories things as good, evil, or neutral.
- Letter C discusses annual pilgrimages and filters those viewed as ashamed.
- Letter D distinguishes between things that change time, extend time, or maximize time.
- The document continues in this absurdist vein by providing random associations for most other letters as well.
Storytelling for Design Thinkers at Design for America @ NYULee-Sean Huang
This document provides guidance on storytelling and listening skills. It discusses how storytelling can be used to promote ideas and advocate for new initiatives within a community. It also provides tips for understanding community needs through active listening techniques like paraphrasing, probing with questions, and being a "silent sponge" who listens without speaking. The document advocates listening to understand others rather than just replying. It also shares quotes on the importance of listening from experts. Overall, the document aims to teach design thinkers how to capture community needs through listening and promote ideas through impactful storytelling.
The term “science” represents a claim to universality, but modern social science is based on lessons from European historical experience. Why, then, does it claim to have universal application? We suggest that Weber’s dictum that social science should be value free led to the concealment of Eurocentric values within an apparently objective framework governed by “rationality”.
This document discusses an Indigenous/Ecological approach to transformation presented by Katia Sol. It outlines the global context of crisis across multiple levels and an opportunity for global transformative learning. Katia presents a relational epistemology and methodology for research grounded in relationships and reconnection to self, nature, village, and engagement in the world. The core of her work focuses on practices that support individual and collective transformation through cultivating connection across these different spheres in a holistic way.
Unbridled economic growth has locked our identities to the things we possess. Our individuality is shaped by what we own rather than the relationships we have with other people or our landscape. Museums have encouraged this. If they are not seduced by the glamour of treasure, they are overly concerned with narrative so that the sole purpose of objects is to tell a linear human story, invariably one of ‘progress’.
The Happy Museum Project looks at how the museums can respond to the challenges presented by the need to create a low-carbon future where prosperity relies not on an individual’s ability to consume but on his or her capacity to co-operate and collaborate. Its proposition is that museums are well placed to play an active part, but that grasping the opportunity will require reimagining some key aspects of their role, both in terms of their relationship with their visitors and communities, but also in the way they relate to the objects in their collections
Experiential integral ed book group slides 1perspegrity5
This document discusses concepts related to learning, education, spirituality, and integral theory. It presents models of human development, including Spiral Dynamics levels ranging from instinctive to integral. It discusses the progression from ego-centric to world-centric perspectives, pre-conventional to post-conventional thinking, and black-and-white to more nuanced understandings. It also covers wisdom skills, perspective-taking, justification of beliefs, and applying AQAL theory to education.
The document summarizes an online discussion about systems of power and oppression. It introduces concepts like acknowledging indigenous lands, having moments to reflect on injustice, and looking critically at how power and representation are constructed in systems and designs. Key questions are raised about who has power in systems, whose perspectives are represented or not, and how to participate differently to imagine a more just world.
A look at a few lifelike systems that share the essential characteristics of being Self-organisaing and Adaptive as context for ongoing series of Water and Words presentations.
Includes links to other parts of the deeper understanding building around this plus additional reading .
Slide deck for the third of ongoing series of presentations looking at water's planet-shaping role and barriers to its recognition within knowledge systems submerged in human language.
The document discusses leadership and the new science 20 years after the publication of Leadership and the New Science in 1992. It touches on questions of how we got to the current moment, what role leaders should play going forward, and structures each day of content around teachings, small and large group discussions, and personal reflection. The overall tone is one of open inquiry into leadership, human capacities, and finding purpose and meaning in challenging times.
The document outlines an original vision for abundance, indefinite lifespans, ever-growing intelligence and knowledge. It explores topics like energy, resources, space, longevity and intelligence augmentation. Specific areas discussed include solar power, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence, brain emulation, medical nanotechnology and more. The document also discusses organizational ideas like forming a foundation to fund relevant ventures and using online tools like wikis, forums and blogs to build an internet presence and community around discussing and pursuing this vision of the future.
This document discusses concepts of space and place. It defines space as broader and more abstract than place, describing space as possibility and openness while place represents pause and location. Place only emerges as space becomes familiar and valued. The ideas of space and place require each other for definition. Sensing and inhabiting places is how we come to understand them. Communities and identities are also discussed in relation to places and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to places. The document examines challenges involved in creating change within communities.
Globalization is influencing higher education trends in South Korea. South Korean universities are increasingly adopting Western-style curriculum and programs to attract more international students and compete globally. However, this is also contributing to "brain drain" as many Korean students choose to study and work abroad after graduation. The effects of globalization in higher education are creating both educational and cultural changes in South Korean classrooms.
Dystopian Literature, Millennials, and TeachingGordon Harvey
This document discusses how teaching methods may need to change to better engage millennial students. Millennials grew up with technology and have high expectations for teamwork and challenge. However, they also desire structure and protection. Dystopian stories popular with millennials externalize their internal struggles under authoritarian control and desire for independent thought. While resistance to change exists, teachers should consider providing community, feedback, and diverse learning to match millennial students' strengths and address their pressures.
Coyote teaching is a mentorship approach that focuses on guiding students to find their own answers through questioning rather than direct instruction. It aims to inspire independence by challenging students with analogies, environmental learning experiences, and stories at the edge of their comfort zones. Some key aspects of coyote teaching include using the Socratic method of answering questions with more questions, allowing students to learn from their environment, and creating opportunities for students to problem solve authentic challenges. The goal is to pass on traditions and skills while pushing students to grow without pushing them too far outside their limits.
Resilience an introduction and promoting a cultureResilient Are We
This document discusses the concept of resilience from various perspectives. It defines resilience as both the ability of a system to return to equilibrium after a disturbance, and the amount of disturbance a system can absorb before changing. It examines resilience in individuals, organizations, and systems. It argues that understanding resilience is important given increasing high-impact events globally. It also discusses promoting resilience among disabled people and establishing a disability resilience network to share experiences and understanding of resilience.
Authentically connected: Care, emotion and the challenge of technologyPaul Treadwell
Interactive slides removed for upload - Why care matters for technologists and our usage of technology:
How do we make technology mediated spaces human spaces?
How does the technology we choose shape interactions?
What are the risks, and rewards, for opening these spaces?
Take charge of the political narrative by knowing your values and framing the debate. Presentation discusses George Lakoff's framing principles discussed in the book"Don't Think of an Elephant!"
Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift that follows the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver. The third voyage describes Gulliver's visit to the floating island of Laputa, inhabited by scientists so focused on abstract thought that they have become impractical. He then visits Balnibarbi's Grand Academy, where philosophers seek to destroy the old world before building a new one. The voyage criticizes aspects of modern science, philosophy and politics.
This document summarizes research on communities engaged in low-carbon transitions. It discusses a project that studied 4 case sites in the UK over 1 year, including Lammas eco-village. At Lammas, residents have worked to change outsider perceptions from seeing them as hippies to a well-organized community. Forming community within Lammas requires ongoing effort to balance individualism with communal obligations while under pressure to meet sustainability targets. The visibility of the project is both necessary to change perceptions but also presents challenges for community building.
This document provides an overview of a workshop on shaping sustainable futures. It introduces Forum for the Future and their work on sustainability challenges. The workshop will explore citizen-driven innovation, scenarios for sustainable societies in Europe in 2050, and how participants can help enable positive futures. Activities include discussing innovations seen today, key changes over 20 years, and what lifestyles may be like for different 2050 scenarios. The goal is for participants to reflect on pathways to sustainable futures and how they can support each other as citizen innovators.
This document provides a series of nonsensical definitions or examples for letters of the alphabet. Some key points include:
- Letter A defines various types of alignments and categories things as good, evil, or neutral.
- Letter C discusses annual pilgrimages and filters those viewed as ashamed.
- Letter D distinguishes between things that change time, extend time, or maximize time.
- The document continues in this absurdist vein by providing random associations for most other letters as well.
Storytelling for Design Thinkers at Design for America @ NYULee-Sean Huang
This document provides guidance on storytelling and listening skills. It discusses how storytelling can be used to promote ideas and advocate for new initiatives within a community. It also provides tips for understanding community needs through active listening techniques like paraphrasing, probing with questions, and being a "silent sponge" who listens without speaking. The document advocates listening to understand others rather than just replying. It also shares quotes on the importance of listening from experts. Overall, the document aims to teach design thinkers how to capture community needs through listening and promote ideas through impactful storytelling.
The term “science” represents a claim to universality, but modern social science is based on lessons from European historical experience. Why, then, does it claim to have universal application? We suggest that Weber’s dictum that social science should be value free led to the concealment of Eurocentric values within an apparently objective framework governed by “rationality”.
This document discusses an Indigenous/Ecological approach to transformation presented by Katia Sol. It outlines the global context of crisis across multiple levels and an opportunity for global transformative learning. Katia presents a relational epistemology and methodology for research grounded in relationships and reconnection to self, nature, village, and engagement in the world. The core of her work focuses on practices that support individual and collective transformation through cultivating connection across these different spheres in a holistic way.
Unbridled economic growth has locked our identities to the things we possess. Our individuality is shaped by what we own rather than the relationships we have with other people or our landscape. Museums have encouraged this. If they are not seduced by the glamour of treasure, they are overly concerned with narrative so that the sole purpose of objects is to tell a linear human story, invariably one of ‘progress’.
The Happy Museum Project looks at how the museums can respond to the challenges presented by the need to create a low-carbon future where prosperity relies not on an individual’s ability to consume but on his or her capacity to co-operate and collaborate. Its proposition is that museums are well placed to play an active part, but that grasping the opportunity will require reimagining some key aspects of their role, both in terms of their relationship with their visitors and communities, but also in the way they relate to the objects in their collections
Experiential integral ed book group slides 1perspegrity5
This document discusses concepts related to learning, education, spirituality, and integral theory. It presents models of human development, including Spiral Dynamics levels ranging from instinctive to integral. It discusses the progression from ego-centric to world-centric perspectives, pre-conventional to post-conventional thinking, and black-and-white to more nuanced understandings. It also covers wisdom skills, perspective-taking, justification of beliefs, and applying AQAL theory to education.
The document summarizes an online discussion about systems of power and oppression. It introduces concepts like acknowledging indigenous lands, having moments to reflect on injustice, and looking critically at how power and representation are constructed in systems and designs. Key questions are raised about who has power in systems, whose perspectives are represented or not, and how to participate differently to imagine a more just world.
A look at a few lifelike systems that share the essential characteristics of being Self-organisaing and Adaptive as context for ongoing series of Water and Words presentations.
Includes links to other parts of the deeper understanding building around this plus additional reading .
Slide deck for the third of ongoing series of presentations looking at water's planet-shaping role and barriers to its recognition within knowledge systems submerged in human language.
The document discusses several hypotheses that were initially dismissed but later gained acceptance:
- Plate tectonics was proposed in the early 20th century but not widely accepted until more evidence was discovered 50 years later, showing continents could move.
- The existence of an aether to transmit light was proposed by Newton and used in Maxwell's equations, but failed to be detected in experiments. Einstein's theory of relativity explained light without an aether.
- Lamarck's idea of acquired traits being inherited, accepted for millennia, was dismissed due to experiments failing to prove it. However, epigenetics shows environmentally induced reversible heritable traits without DNA change, partially validating Lamarck.
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Presentation using a pair of books to expand possibilities inherent in chemical and electromagnetic interaction leading to some wider speculation about the role the rich structure of H₂O has had and continues to have in shaping Life of this planet. Consequent linkage to persistent themes within our Supervenience project and wider orbit.
This document provides a summary of Tony Smith's quarterly huddle on 27 February 2022, covering five crazy years and motivating the group for the final quarter. It includes updates on various environmental projects, site visits, and community events focused on protecting local creeks, rivers, and other natural areas in Victoria.
OverFlow Chart Introduction and Application to Gateway DrugsTony Smith
Presentation Slides from Melbourne Emergence Meetup 11 November 2021 examining three emergence-superveience relationships centred around the Accelerating Abstraction of humans from Industrialised Apex Predator in the biosphere to ever more Documented Consumable in the map of legal fictions.
- The document summarizes lessons learned from a major flood that occurred along the Cumberland River in early January 2021, mobilizing large rocks and depositing them in intertidal waters while trapping silt and gradually turning wetlands into dry land.
- It discusses the failure of delayed rainfall observations to trigger emergency warnings, and the broad catchment and narrow gorge creating a delay between rainfall and peak flooding.
- The self-organization and mutual assistance of the camp/visitor community during the middle of the night flood is also summarized, as well as the lack of contextual awareness from responding police and SES volunteers initially.
Images (pics, maps and covers) drawn from Kororoit Institute submission to parliamentary inquiry into Ecosystems Decline in Victoria, with minimal commentary aside from section headings and recommendations, providing context for discussion of where we take this from here, both the global task of insisting on the urgent need for humans to work with rather than against until now dangerously suppressed ecosystems, and the local task of working with structures of our colonial political economy to ensure the tide is well and truly turning.
Experimental presentation using photos of a contested local remnant site as song lines style background to initial contextualisation of the essential ubiquity of habituation and addictions.
The Deep Stack of Existence: Seeing Life and its Substrates as Richly Connect...Tony Smith
A key point summary of deep history through a complex systems lens with emphasis on connectivity and contingency, within the context of our Supervenience Project's envisaged chapters Towards Healthy General Knowledge and Life on an Active Planet, with late focus on recent neurological research confirming the breadth of common heritage of mobile animals.
Debate authorising Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in VictoriaTony Smith
Referral to Environment and Planning Committee.
Extracted as background reading for Ecosystem Decline (KI) Group.
Moved by Samantha Ratnam and widely supported but ultimately opposed by the opposition after their proposed amendment wasn't accepted.
Not my usual kind of slide show but essential to production of the next couple.
Presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup with placeholder for short video: https://vimeo.com/388799004 and vertically scrolling portrait orientation view from hand back to Cumbo replaced by start, mid and end stages.
December 2019 presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup in the scope of ongoing Supervenience project series and as corollary to November's presentation re human infrastructure projects the group has taken an interest in. Includes pictures from recent visits to Stony Creek toxic fire site and Mud Island.
Reflections on Kororoit Institute’s and friends’ planning interventions in light of Supervenience project and where to from here, presented at Melbourne Emergence Meetup 14 November 2019.
Contains main text and images of a submission to the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019, save for the Supervenience Project principles which are developed in other presentations and with the introductory background of that submission expanded into a longer account of the history of Kororoit Institute's interest in infrastructure. That history also draws on text of submission to VEAC re Coastal Reserves to provide a shortish explanation of the Nepean Bay Bar proposal.
Many people are aware of something of particular interest to them which conventional wisdom gets badly wrong but assume that one thing is all that really needs to be fixed while the status quo is otherwise fine. Once you escape your silo and start seriously looking around, it becomes obvious that most things you take for granted are pretty much stuffed too. This presentation to CVAF highlights a few of them and argues that adversary systems are no longer fit for purpose.
Presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup 12 September 2019 providing further context for Supervenience Project, interleaving four decades of awareness development with one of local activism and digital photography. Doesn't quite achieve declared aims of bridging Too Funny for Words with Accepting Cosmological Responsibility, but useful starting point nonetheless.
Slide 9 is a montage of frames from two minute video of the first of Josie Taylor's two reports cited on Slide 8, as a placeholder for the actual video.
The document summarizes Tony Smith's presentation on self-organized criticality. Some key points:
- Self-organized criticality describes how dissipative systems with extended degrees of freedom can evolve toward a minimally stable critical state through small, frequent disturbances that follow a power law distribution.
- Bak et al's 1987 paper that introduced this concept has been shown to be relevant to many natural phenomena like sandpiles, earthquakes, wildfires, etc. that maintain a critical balance.
- Smith's presentation applied self-organized criticality to better understand everyday human behaviors and systems, examining universals, animals, civilization, and modernity in terms of approaching critical thresholds.
- Reaching critical states
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
ESA/ACT Science Coffee: Diego Blas - Gravitational wave detection with orbita...Advanced-Concepts-Team
Presentation in the Science Coffee of the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency on the 07.06.2024.
Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE/ICREA)
Title: Gravitational wave detection with orbital motion of Moon and artificial
Abstract:
In this talk I will describe some recent ideas to find gravitational waves from supermassive black holes or of primordial origin by studying their secular effect on the orbital motion of the Moon or satellites that are laser ranged.
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
2. Tonight’s Challenge
• Tell a story with currently 17 major parts
• each of which should eventually get a lot more
than a full length presentation
• Make clear their framing in fundamental principles
• Engage any who may find something that touches
them in part, framing or whole
• Wrap it while everyone is still with us
3. Why bother?
• Before I’m gone, hopefully
• Laying it out in summary
• leaving unfinished clues
• Marcia Salner’s challenge
• Towards a “better” world
• Multi generational project
• we’ve only just begun
• Need a “better” road map
4. • Late in a self-indulgent life
• lived at a fortuitous time in a fortuitous place
• Chatterbox in my head is reward from that journey
• A life well lived is artistic masterpiece too easily lost
• In the here and now we can but leave traces
• Giving thanks to the space, time, energy, matter
and other lives that have allowed me to tell my lies
on this old and damp ball of rock
• Our systemic servants do not good masters make
5. Knowledge of Nature
• Cosmogenesis in Multiverse
• Physics from Nothing is Hard
• Earth, Sun, Moon, Life
• (pre)historic contingency
recursion
• Observing common behaviour
• Learning to look closely
• under reef ledges
• volcanic plains grasslands
10. Victorian Volcanic Plains Grasslands
• John Batman 1835: most beautiful sheep pasturage
• Almost destroyed by sheep and superphosphate
• Shown on vegetation maps as uniform pale yellow
• Obscuring its rich detail, rocky rises, orchids, …
11. Nature of Knowledge
• Could defer this to Bill Hall
• Towards a Knowledge Network
• Conversation Piece (1997)
• TransForum
• Pseudoscience Psychology
Economics deny agency to
co-inhabitants of this planet
• Legal Fictions
• Intellectual Property
12. • Knowledge encoded in DNA, synapses, muscles
guides response to environmental variability (How?)
• Knowledge encoded in deeply recursive grammars
offers responses to endless human curiosity (Why?)
• Verbal blindness obscures much from human gaze
• Double-edged sword revealing truth, spreading lies
• Knowing your own kind, territory, movement, needs
• Stories, curation, transformational potential (What if?)
14. • Homo Sapiens do not enjoy special uniqueness
• beyond emergent characteristics coming together
• Science is but one of our significant stepping stones
• Extreme division of labour counterfeits ecosystems
• producing platforms & silos for further exploration
• Alpha male legacies thwart quest for civil society
• Still share planet & cities with many fellow travellers
15. • Avoid projection and
assumption of privilege
• Nature mostly doesn’t care
• Tomorrow is good assumption
• Implications of life extension
• Choosing our exit strategies
• Approaching The Ant Road
• Specialists and generalists
• Why, in general, Life Is Good
• Shit Happens as useful
starting philosophy
16. Selected Cellular Automata
• Discrete versus Continuous
• Deterministic does not imply
predetermined, allows rerunning
• Many discrete mechanisms in Wolfram:
A New Kind of Science 2002
• Principle of Computational Equivalence
• Computational Irreducibility
• Evolving Networks, Tick Tock
• Fredkin Automata, Pattern Breeder
• Game of Life, Generations 345/3/6
17. Two years running
Generations 345/3/6
developing software
compressed rendering
animation pan & zoom
Near last of 500 seeds run
for 100,000+ iterations
produced fresh surprises
Of all early surprises
the above demanded
getting very serious
and naming Hanu
18. COMFORT FEATURES Generations WMPVN
Count range 0-8 0-12(c)
Survive 345(8?) 45678(b?c?)
Born 3(6?7?8?) 45(9?a?b?c?)
1/2 forward movement born 3 born 45
1/2 toggling side cells born 3 born 4
asym ship central cell death not survive 6 not survive 9
sym ship central cell death not survive 7 not survive a
tail/edge clean up not survive 12 not survive (1?)23
track without gap stability survive 35 survive 48
double track with gap stability survive 34 survive 46
gapless double track stability survive 345 survive 468
block stability survive 3 survive 5
blocked track stability survive 5 survive 8
gap stability not born 4 not born 6(7?8?)
track toothed edge stability not born 5 not born 8
• Key to Generations 345/3/6 is track-laying engines
• These can occur in 345/3/n through 3458/3678/n
• None of those offered more, so
explored new rule super family
• Moore and von Neumann
neighbourhoods, so Weighted
Moore Plus Von Neumann
• Identified 64 individual rule
families as comparable targets
• Many new behaviours found,
highlight WMPVN 45678c/459/11
20. Emergence/Systems/Complexity
Supervenience 101
• Emergent organisation
constrains the behaviour of
component parts
• Math concept of degrees of
freedom useful here
• Novel organisation can
emerge where there is a
gradient to be dissipated
• Stan Salthe’s rule of thumb
suggests maximum 50% of
gradient can do useful work
• Theory poorly recognised
21.
22. Invasions of Australia
• Alfred Russell Wallace’s line
• Tim Flannery: Future Eaters
• Northern contacts, the Dingo
• Bill Gammage: Greatest Estate
• Bruce Pascoe: Dark Emu
• Sheep and Superphosphate
• Detroit and Hollywood
• The Russians are coming
• The Yellow Peril
23.
24. No Secrets and
No Need for Secrets
• Chapter originally planned for
1987 iteration on The Prospect
of an Informed Age
• No Secrets clearly on track
• No Need now problematic
• Collective courage to move
away from censoriousness
• How to live in megacities?
• Institutions don’t scale well
25. • We act within relationships (later) and communities
• Communities are very supportive within boundaries
• Wider community needs confidence that individual
groups are not up to no good
• Challenge to strip judgement calls on individuals
and groups back to necessary minimum
• Well regulated supply better than prohibition
• Treat mental illness seriously but never as pretext
26. Opening Collectives
Beyond Democracy
• This is newish, moving target
• Though seen by 1987, only
now becoming permissible to
say Democracy doesn’t scale
• Open Source Software was a
novel approach to collective
agency, with strong validation
• Challenge to extend strengths
where success judgement call
• Co-working spaces find need
for better resource discovery
27. • Creative Commons, Open Standards, MOOC
• Open Data, Open Geographic Information Systems
• Open Government, Occupy Everywhere, Loomio
• DIY Bio, 3D Printing, Maker Spaces, Mens Sheds
• The Commons, Co-operatives, Crowd Funding
• Co-ordination, Co-operation, Collaboration
• Social Media, Citizen Reporting, Sousveillance
29. • Home 1949-1957
• Couldn’t build on block next
door because Moonee Ponds
Creek floods kept eroding
• School 1958-1963
• Home and Creek obliterated
1966 for Tullamarine Freeway
and Flood Amelioration
31. • Originally in context of #EWfail
and last Federal election
• Now fit Colin’s human-sized
• Cumberland River Holiday Park
• Camp, Bush, Beach
32. Plans for Melbourne
• President of Master Plumbers
• MMBW, Public Works Dept
• Increasing fan of Local Govt
• despite compliance regime
• Hydrology, Public Transport
• Transport Integration Act 2010
• Better use interested public
• Work back from Long Big Pic
34. Contested Values and
Growing Pool of Money
• Money & me: worst of enemies
• Your time cannot be replaced
• but resupply fairly reliable
• Interests and affections
• 1987 book plan substructure
multidimensional value vector
easy as scalar for computers
• Triple bottom line accounting
• beauty, belonging, stimulation,
caring, relief, novelty, comfort,
35. • Money as rubber ruler: intrinsic value less volatile
• Collect deep pools, stabilise surface, drain out
underneath to irrigate other enterprises, repeat
• Local domination by banking (and “planning”)
authorisation for a development to proceed
• Growth imperative, rent seekers, empires in decline
• Re-insurance, hedge funds strive against volatility
• Long term investment with short term performance
38. • We occupiers enjoy a life of extraordinary comfort
at disproportionate cost to the occupied
• We have more to learn from them than they from us
• Close to Deaths in Custody & Stolen Generation
• More recent studies revisit long-ignored evidence
• Despite well known disadvantages, their cultures
retain an attraction, better international recognition
• Paternalist assimilation must not be default choice
40. • Staying open to evidence is fundamental, but doesn’t
ignore weight of evidence nor shift burden of proof
• I try to stay rational but am not a Rationalist
• I try to stay humane without becoming a Humanist
• Happy to be Secular, but that is a political position
• Scepticism is appropriate in face of unsupported
claims to common sense or obviousness #EWfail
• Better a TransHumanist seeing human as transitional
41. Turning Hopes
into Expectations
• Self-fulfilling prophecies
• Reincarnation technologies
ask more than they answer but
we are not likely to give up
• Might we transmit updates to
digital souls around Galaxy?
• Science Fiction makes worlds
to explore but stays familiar
• Book I identify with in which a
gifted ivory playing piece God
is broken by Hanuman li Tosh
42. • Hypothesise for a moment that we can productively
limit social interaction to maps: language & media
• Swap familiar biological for Moravec’s rich robotics
• Amount of data needed to represent an individual’s
conversational potential may drop precipitously
• Take reincarnation literally: awoken knows it is you
• Question moves: when in life’s story? multiplicity?
• Seeding a proxy first step to viable autonomous heir
43. Slaughtering Sacred Cows
• Some things must stay unsaid
• Common heritage as animal,
chordate, reptile, mammal
• Biological imperatives meet
behavioural plasticity
• Product of peculiar life history
• Discover/construct who we are
• Expected to know rules without
anyone allowed to teach them
• All seen thru coloured glasses
44. • Issues fuel religious dogma, self-styled do-gooders
• Ending paternalism without destroying safeguards
• Schoolyard and folk wisdom sets ugly expectations
• Entitlement without empathy, adversary legal system
• Ends with disillusioned partner seeking retribution
• Learning, rewards and addiction closely related
• Authoritarianism taught as psychological diagnosis
46. • Is? and Ought? The two
great questions have the
same two word answer
• Exploring Possibilities
• also known as PLAY
• Need confident platform
from which to explore
and for happy returns
• Demographics & social
complexification create
adolescence to explore
personal possibilities
• Are we all adolescent?
47. “Lets see, I reckon put like walls down here that kids are allowed to graffiti.
There’s not a whole lot of other places. Like there’s a few places in the city.
Kids have to go all the way into the city. Most of the time when kids go into
the city, older people like try and steal their stuff, like that.”