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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #13: Dancing With
Systems |
| Systems
Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Ecology (from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Biology (from online encyclopedia) |
| Complexity
Systems
Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Living
Systems Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| World
Systems Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Synthetic
Environment for Analysis and Simulations (from online encyclopedia) |
| Causal
Layered Analysis (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Object-oriented
analysis and design (from online encyclopedia) |
| Dynamical
Systems (from online encyclopedia) |
| Environmental
Impact Assessment (from online encyclopedia) |
| 12
Leverage Points to Intervene in a System (from online encyclopedia,
reports on Donella Meadows' work) |
| The
Fifth Discipline (from online encyclopedia about Peter Senge's work) |
| Predictive
Analytics (from online encyclopedia) |
| Network
Effect (from online encyclopedia, about the digital snowballing phenomenon) |
| Worldview
Watch #56, April 13 2018: Pointing Facebook in a "Dancing With
Systems" Direction |
| Evolutionary
Algorithms (overview from Sandia National Lab) |
| "Dancing
With Systems", article by Donella Meadows |
| Thinking
in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows (read excerpts of this 2008
book at Google Books) |
| The
Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning (from The Dance of
Change, by Peter Senge, etal) |
| Systems
Thinking -- An Operational Perspective of the Universe |
| The
Systems Thinker Newsletter |
| Systems
Thinking (from Thinking.net) |
| Santa
Fe Institute ( think tank devoted to "complexity research
expanding the boundaries of science") |
| Overview
of Principia Cybernetica ("an...attempt to
develop a complete cybernetic and evolutionary philosophy") |
| The
Human Brain Project (website of effort to build computer models
to simulate the actual working of the brain) |
| Living
Earth Simulator: The Ultimate HPC Big Data Application by Michael Feldman (December
2011 news item) |
| "Managing
Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems" by Dirk Helbing (on Future
ICT website, 2009 paper) |
| The
MIT Integrated Global System Model |
| The
Social Data Lab (at Stanford University, "acts as a hub
connecting key players in the social data landscape") |
| System
Dynamics Example (illustrating a six step approach) |
| Complexity
Digest ("networking the complexity community") |
|
“Criticality”
by Cesar Hidalgo (Essay 2017 contribution to Edge.org) |
| "Artificial
Intelligence: March of the Machines" (leader for cover story re:
lengthy section on this topic in The Economist June 25 2016) |
| "When
Science Goes Wrong: Computer Says Oops" (report on neuroscience
modeling mishaps from The Economist July 16 2016) |
| "Decisions
Handed Down By Data" (a "What If..." article in The
Economist July 16 2016) |
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"Artificial
Intelligence: machines for thinking" (review of books related to
this topic from The Economist October 3 2015)
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| "Quantum
Computers: A Little Bit, Better" (report from The Economist
June 20 2015) |
| "Virtual
Biology: Computer Worms" (report on effort to make world's first
simulated organism from The Economist May 24, 2014) |
| "The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think"
by James Somers (article about artificial intelligence pioneer D.
Hofstadter from The Atlantic Nov 2013) |
| "Neuromorphic Computing: The Machine of a New Soul"
(article from The Economist August 3 2013) |
| Intuition
Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by
Daniel C. Dennett (review of book printed in June 15 2013 The
Economist ) |
| "Can
Engineers and Scientists Ever Master Complexity?" by John Horgon (Dec
10 2012 post on Scientific American blog) |
| Links
to Systems-Oriented Thinking Websites |
| A
Primer on Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning |
| Applied
Systems Thinking (a look at thinking tools from a systems view) |
| System
Dynamics: A Learning & Problem Solving Approach to Development Policy,
by Khalid Saeed |
| Feedback,
by Piotr Golec ( from Economics Web Institute) |
| A
Summary of the Principles of Hierarchy Theory (hierarchy theory is
"a dialect of general systems theory") |
| Hidden
Order, by John Holland (1995 book about "how
adaptation builds complexity" preview at Google Books) |
| Introduction
to Evolutionary Computing, by A. Eiben and J. Smith (read
excerpts of 2003 book at Google Books) |
| Too
Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge by David Weinberger (read excerpts
of 2012 book at Google Books) |
| The
Black Swan--The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb (read
excerpts of 2010 book at Google Books) |
| Ackoff
Center for the Advancement of Systems Approaches |
| International
Society for the Systems Sciences |
| Global
Vision: Communicating Sustainability (about cybernetics pioneer
Gregory Bateson and cybernetic wisdom) |
| The
Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle with Lucy Shapiro (June
15 2009 UCTV program) |
| "Quantum
Entanglement in Photosynthesis" by Mohan Sarovar, etal
(2009 paper re: a many body quantum system) |
| Building
the Brain: From Simplicity to Complexity with Nick Spitzer (2005 UCTV
program) |
| The
Lifebox, The Seashell and the Soul by Rudy Rucker (read excerpts of
2006 book at Google Books) |
| Information
Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, by Hubert Yockey (preview
of 2005 book at Google Books) |
| "Information
is the Difference Between Life and Matter," by Gert Korthof (explains
ideas of Hubert Yockey) |
|
Central Nervous System for the Earth
Project -- Hewlett-Packard (2009 press release about this project)
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| A
New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram (2003 UCTV program about science
of complexity) |
| From
Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning ed. Niels Henrik
(review of this 2003 book) |
| The
Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing by Frank
Vertosick (review of this 2002 book posted on The New York Times
site) |
| A
New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram (website for this 2002 book
re: cellular automata) |
|
The
Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, by
Fritjof Capra (from Google Books) |
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"Emergent
Phenomena and the Secrets of Life," by Peter Macklem (2008
article by McGill University researcher) |
| "Is
"Nonreductive Physicalism" An Oxymoron?" by Nancey Murphy
(paper: downward causation ==>neurobiology)
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|
"Downward
Causation: An Example Involving Human Reproductive & Neuroendocrine
Systems",
by S. Cook |
| "The
Art of Simplexity," by Jeffrey Kluger (excerpt from his Simplexity
book, in Time June 23, 2008) |
| "Restricted
Complexity, General Complexity," by Edgar Morin (2005
paper) |
|
Bowen Family
Systems Theory (applies systems thinking to describe and understand
family interactions) |
| Deep
Ethology: Levels of Organization ("Deep Ethology begins with a
behavioral pattern and seeks insight as to its causes and
consequences") |
|
The
Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently--And
Why, by Richard Nisbett
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| quotes
from systems thinkers |