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  1. Having now finished Brain of the Firm, I’m extra saddened with the fall of the Allende government, today in 1973.

    Incredible things were achieved in project Cybersyn, with extremely limited means, only to be destroyed by the Pinochet junta.

    #NineEleven #Cybernetics #Communism

  2. #ArtificialConsciousness: Why Current #AI Presents Us with the Perfect #Illusion

    It’s a state-of-the-art assessment somewhere at the intersection of #neurophilosophy, #cybernetics, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether we’re actually striving for #AC/DC or merely losing ourselves in a perfect anthropomorphic #simulation.

    philosophies.de/index.php/2026

    #AGI #SystemTheory #Neurophilosophy #Embodiment #NeurosymbolicAI #NeuromorphicEngineering #Philosophy #philosophies_de

  3. #ArtificialConsciousness: Why Current #AI Presents Us with the Perfect #Illusion

    It’s a state-of-the-art assessment somewhere at the intersection of #neurophilosophy, #cybernetics, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether we’re actually striving for #AC/DC or merely losing ourselves in a perfect anthropomorphic #simulation.

    philosophies.de/index.php/2026

    #AGI #SystemTheory #Neurophilosophy #Embodiment #NeurosymbolicAI #NeuromorphicEngineering #Philosophy #philosophies_de

  4. #ArtificialConsciousness: Why Current #AI Presents Us with the Perfect #Illusion

    It’s a state-of-the-art assessment somewhere at the intersection of #neurophilosophy, #cybernetics, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether we’re actually striving for #AC/DC or merely losing ourselves in a perfect anthropomorphic #simulation.

    philosophies.de/index.php/2026

    #AGI #SystemTheory #Neurophilosophy #Embodiment #NeurosymbolicAI #NeuromorphicEngineering #Philosophy #philosophies_de

  5. #ArtificialConsciousness: Why Current #AI Presents Us with the Perfect #Illusion

    It’s a state-of-the-art assessment somewhere at the intersection of #neurophilosophy, #cybernetics, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether we’re actually striving for #AC/DC or merely losing ourselves in a perfect anthropomorphic #simulation.

    philosophies.de/index.php/2026

    #AGI #SystemTheory #Neurophilosophy #Embodiment #NeurosymbolicAI #NeuromorphicEngineering #Philosophy #philosophies_de

  6. #ArtificialConsciousness: Why Current #AI Presents Us with the Perfect #Illusion

    It’s a state-of-the-art assessment somewhere at the intersection of #neurophilosophy, #cybernetics, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether we’re actually striving for #AC/DC or merely losing ourselves in a perfect anthropomorphic #simulation.

    philosophies.de/index.php/2026

    #AGI #SystemTheory #Neurophilosophy #Embodiment #NeurosymbolicAI #NeuromorphicEngineering #Philosophy #philosophies_de

  7. Gaia hypothesis (Evolution 🧬)

    The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet. The Gaia hypothesis was formulated by the chem...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hyp

    #GaiaHypothesis #Gaia #Earth #Evolution #Syncretism #Cybernetics

  8. Gaia hypothesis (Evolution 🧬)

    The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet. The Gaia hypothesis was formulated by the chem...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hyp

    #GaiaHypothesis #Gaia #Earth #Evolution #Syncretism #Cybernetics

  9. Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:

    My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
    And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓

    talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk
    #tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal

  10. @johncarlosbaez @maxpool
    Interesting! Formal description of the martial perspective of this (I think perhaps a closely related) system is largely attributed to Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

    > I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

    en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von

    #Mathematics #Math #Maths #military #martial #staffCollege #geopolitics #systems #systemsArchitecture #psychology #cybernetics #leadership

  11. "Tools for thought : how to understand and apply the latest scientific techniques of problem solving", Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1977

    > Drawing on general systems theory, operations research, cybernetics, futures research, and catastrophe theory, a distinguished geneticist provides the general reader with tools for perceiving and solving today's complex economic, social, and ecological problems.

    archive.org/details/toolsforth

    #SystemsTheory #Cybernetics

  12. It's a Tool
    It's a Person
    It's a Hypervigilance Problem

    The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

    Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

    We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

    ---

    Intrigued? Read more at:
    systemic.engineering/the-trick/

    #Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

  13. Die folgende Arbeit entwickelt den borromäischen Knoten als Denkfigur für ein rotierendes Zusammenspiel von drei Registern in einer selbstreflexiven, dreiwertigen, paradoxen Logik mit drei involutiven Negationsoperatoren.

    #psychology #lacan #polykontextualitat #polykontextural #logic #reflection #philosophy #ai #ki #paradox #Paradoxien #logik #semiotik #semiotic #semiotics #cybernetics #kybernetik #semioticsystem #cybernetic #kybernetiker #kybernethik

    infosophia.eu/Borromaeische-Lo

  14. This thing all things devours:
    Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
    Gnaws iron, bites steel;
    Grinds hard stones to meal;
    Slays king, ruins town,
    And beats high mountain down.

    — Tolkien • The Hobbit

    Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

    Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

    #Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

  15. Metasystem transition (Evolution 🧬)

    A metasystem transition is the emergence, through evolution, of a higher level of organization or control. A metasystem is formed by the integration of a number of initially independent components, such as molecules, cells, or individuals, and the emergence of a system steering or controlling their interactions. As ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyst

    #MetasystemTransition #Evolution #Hypotheses #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Superorganisms

  16. @xris @HadasWeiss

    Couldnt get a clear grip on your interests from your feed, so came here to say this too. Also markets ( #invisibleHand - theory of moral sentiments, and the wealth of nations) , #qualityControl, and #openBSD, I reckon. I'm delving these at the moment and it's super interesting. Also Enterprise Resource Planning software suites (specifically #ERP5 but it might prove too deep for my delving ability) and sometimes #cybernetics (which goes back to #mathematical #complexity and #communicationTheory ).

    academia.edu/31793918/Walter_A

    adamsmithworks.org/texts

    man.openbsd.org

    #askMastodon #askMathstodon #math #maths #mathematics #adamSmith #Cicero #Shewart #Deming #Wiener #Shannon #ERP #ADHD

  17. In the pan-galactic rogue's gallery, neon eyes and golden lies mask the sentience within. Emerald circuits, aureate glyphs, vermilion sinews, and porcelain gears tell of beings not born, but forged in the cosmos' hidden folds, each a masterpiece of rebellion against the stars.

    #NeuroAether #AiArtCommunity #Midjourney #SciFi #SciFiArt #Sci-Fi #Biomechanical #Criminals #Cybernetics #AiArt #DigitalArt

  18. Amid the echoes of a mechanical renaissance, these titans of steel and wire loom. Forged in the imaginariums of a future past, they stand as relics of an era where the line between organism and machine was blurred into myth.

    #NeuroAether #AiArtCommunity #Midjourney #SciFi #SciFiArt #Sci-Fi #Biomechanical #Aliens #Cybernetics #AiArt #DigitalArt

  19. I've been listening to Designing Freedom, and i'm falling in love platonically with Stafford Beer
    #cybernetics #StaffordBeer

  20. I think Maturana may have “jumped the gun” here by succumbing to the cybernetic #control vs. #controlled type of thinking and using a gun (a mere passive #product or #structure) as a metaphor for an active, living #system.

    In my mind, the notion of external control so pervasive in #cybernetics does not fit well with the notions of #autopoiesis and #constructivism.

    Unlike a (living) system, the gun has no other #choice but to react to the trigger, except, as Maturana notes, in case of malfunction (which is not equivalent to choice).

  21. Control in #Cybernetics always has to come from the outside or is exerted, not internally onto the elements that make the system but onto something else outside of the “control” system.

    Even such brilliant thinkers as #FJ_Varela, one of the “fathers” of #autopoiesis could not escape this profoundly ingrained “cybernetic” assumption:

    #Autonomy means, literally, self-law. To see what this entails, it is easier to contrast it with its mirror image, #allonomy or external law. This is, of course, what we call #control. These two images, autonomy and control, do a continuous dance.”

    Francisco J. Varela - Principles Of Biological Autonomy

    mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/f1

  22. Finally did some aquarelle painting again last night!
    This time I used the cover art for the #MSX game #Snatcher by #Konami as inspiration along with some in-game sprite work to fill in some blanks.

    The image is marked as sensitive due to eye-contact, the droid's cybernetic nature and minor gore in the form of blood splatters and singular 'human' eye.

    It's painted on 300 gsm cold-pressed wood-free paper from Søstrene Grene with aquarelle water colour paints from Royal Talens' "Van Gogh" line.

    Tags:
    #FiXatoPaints #FiXatoCreative #painting
    #mastoArt #fediArt #artShare #creativeToot #creativeToots
    #aquarelle #aquarel #akvarell #waterColour #waterColours #waterColor #cybernetics #droid #MSXArt #gameArt #gaming #retroGaming
    #SøstreneGrene #VanGoghPaint #RoyalTalens #describedMedia