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in Pharyngula [Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal] PZ Myers writes about a recent press release from Princeton:
“Unfortunately, the puff piece writer and the scientists involved seem incapable of actually explaining what they found, which makes me extremely suspicious.….Anyway, I’ll be looking for the paper. My bet would be that it says nothing like the claims made for it by the press release, or that it will be an embarrassing error of interpretation by the authors.:
The target of his disbelief was also discussed in a recent thread on friendfeed:
Geoff Schultz (friend of Louis Gray) posted a link
Tags: autopoiesis, change, error, ignorance, predictions, presentations, religion, systems
These are my links for November 13th from 22:43 to 23:00:
- Personal VSM – If one wishes to change the world, one must first change oneself. This was one of Heinz von Foerster’s profound teachings and one that has great applicability today as it seems that many aspects of our lives threaten to spiral out of control. Here in Ontario, which is one of the more tranquil areas on earth, we have had continuing security fall-out from the World Trade Center attack, the Walkerton water system’s e-coli contamination, SARS, a computer leasing scandal in city government and the electricity black-out in August. All appeared to be catastrophes or anomalies but, upon examination, all have been found to be events that we could have, and should have, been better prepared to meet. All the subsequent examinations exposed failures to see the whole picture and to respond with requisite variety when the first sign of trouble appeared.
Tags: change, control, experience, ignorance, predictions, teaching, thinking, VSM
6
Nov
Glossary
Entymology:
Online Etymology Dictionary
Definitions:
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aesthetics archetypes
aesthetics archetypes
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consciousness cybernetics
consciousness cybernetics
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design discipline
design discipline
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education
experience
education
experience
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feedback feeling
feedback feeling
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goals
goals
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holons humour
holons humour
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ignorance insight intelligence inference intuition
ignorance insight intelligence inference intuition
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knowledge
knowledge
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learning
learning
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maxims memory metaphor matching model
maxims memory metaphor matching model
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patterns pattern matching posiwid predictions presentations problem solving
patterns pattern matching posiwid predictions presentations problem solving
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self-awareness skills software synthesis systems systems thinking
self-awareness skills software synthesis systems systems thinking
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teaching thinking
teaching thinking
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vsm
vsm
Tags: aesthetics, archetypes, consciousness, cybernetics, design, discipline, education, experience, feedback, feeling, goals, holons, humour, ignorance, inference, insight, intelligence, intuition, knowledge, learning, maxims, memory, metaphor, model, pattern matching, patterns, POSIWID, predictions, presentations, problem solving, self-awareness, semantics, semiotics, skills, software, synthesis, systems, teaching, thinking, VSM
22
Sep
Lessons Forgot
40+ years ago the cyberneticist Stafford Beer forecast that computerization would be a disaster if this “new” prescription of Shirky’s was not followed [Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure delivered at the Web 2.0 Expo last week].
In a later radio broadcast summarizing some of his concepts (CBC Radio 1973; later published as “Designing Freedom” Anansi) Beer summarized the need this way:
Tags: CBC, Clay Shirky, cybernetics, design, filters, freedom, ignorance, Stafford Beer, systems
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ting thing: Fujitec claims that when you route passengers into groups of people with similar destinations, two things happen: i) You wind up waiting longer to actually enter the elevator, but ii) the actual trip in the elevator is so fast that it more tha
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I’ve worked in offices, and I’ve worked in cubicles. (I’m actually writing this in a double-wide that I share with another writer. Thankfully, she’s busy transcribing a tape, so I have a moment’s peace.) And I’m here to tell you: Collaboration is great, b(tags: productivity)
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NASA image of the day
Bursting at the Seams
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are fissures that spray icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds. This mosaic was created from two high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus and through the jets on Nov. 21, 2009. Imaging the jets over time will allow Cassini scientists to study the consistency of their activity. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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