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  1. I now have definitive written proof of a numeric indexing system (delineated in a popular textbook for secretaries, and published by a company which did significant business in Germany) from the mid-1920s with increasingly more detail into the 1940s and a fifth edition published in 1950. It’s exactly like, but notably predates, Niklas Luhmann’s alphanumeric system which he started in 1952. I’ll write up some of the details shortly with specific references, but thought I’d tease it here a bit first.

  2. Did Niklas Luhmann write in English? I'm seeing some articles listed as being authored by him without a translator listed:
    * jstor.org/stable/1354436
    * jstor.org/stable/469391

    (This is probably futile, not sure where else to ask except for maybe Reddit?)

    #NiklasLuhmann #sociology #Luhmann

  3. [1/2] Si están interesados en construir su propio #zettelkasten 🗃️, pero les parece una idea compleja y abrumadora, les recomiendo ver a este señor explicar de manera sencilla el método que utilizaba Niklas Luhmann y cómo adaptarlo a Apple Notes. #niklasluhmann #applenotes
    youtu.be/UucdSGJYxag

  4. I've started reading some interviews with #NiklasLuhmann - maybe I'll start reading some of his sociological theories. I find the orthogonal German-ness of his statements striking, there are lots of abstractions that he, according to his own words, applies in order to keep his theoretical constructs valid, e.g., independent of moral positions.

    Many other approaches come to my mind for dealing with our reality - and also the gaps if anyone tries to deduce anything the Luhmann way. #sociology

  5. @ilyess organizing solely by folders as a form of categorization was avoided by Niklas Luhmann in his Zettelkasten, for example, it makes things complex when a note "belongs" to multiple categories.

    #NiklasLuhmann #Zettelkasten

  6. @ShadSterling
    ...to #AGI/ #LLM machines of the next generation and the #IoT into our #3D (#4D if you count time in) into the world.

    There is a whole school of #German systems theoretics who applied the concept of #autopoiesis, discovered by the #Nobel #laureates, biologists, #neuroscientist and #pholosophers, Humberto R. #Maturana und Francisco J. #Varela, to the new field of #SociologicalSystemsTheory:
    #NiklasLuhmann,...

    @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld

  7. @ShadSterling @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld
    (7/n)

    ...If you check the prerequisites for #autopoietic systems (as developed by #Varela), we might reach the conclusion that #AGI is already quite close to #Autopoiesis.
    (Note:
    The late #NiklasLuhmann is 1 of the most difficult authors to read and his works are chiefly available in German; I haven't studied him in a long time, so I cannot apply his whole concept to #AI, of which I also do not enough of).
    Why does #Autopoiesis + #SocialSystemsTheory..

  8. @ShadSterling @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld

    👉AI Embodiment👈

    (6/n)

    "...was because of the "*unexpected* acceleration" in #AISystems that "we *need* to take a step back".

    Holy...the #LLM's have already reached a level where they grow *inexplicably* faster!
    If you apply #NiklasLuhmann, another #godfather, but of the #SociologicalSystemsTheory, to #GenerativeArtificialInteligence, you could construct the following hypothesis:

    I guess we can all easily agree that #AGI's are #complex systems...

  9. This paper by Jason Lustig on Gotthard Deutsch’s #zettelkasten was fascinating: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0952695119830900. While there’s an implication that its use didn’t make him as productive (from a writing perspective) as Niklas Luhmann or S.D. Goitein, I might suggest that it made him a more productive thinker and teacher, which in turn bore results in the form of his students who also picked up the practice from him.

    #gotthard-deutsch #niklas-luhmann #s-d-goitein #zettelkasten-for-teaching

    https://boffosocko.com/2023/02/22/55815005/

  10. Warum fühlen sich Menschen angegriffen, wenn man das System hinterfragt, in dem Sie sich zu schlechten Entscheidungen haben verleiten lassen? Warum fühlen sie sich direkt persönlich angegriffen, wo es doch um die Rahmenbedingungen geht, die oftmals demokratisch festgelegt wurden? Wo lernen wir Menschen eine systemtheoretische Denkweise, die uns dabei enorm helfen kann? #systemtheorie #diskusion #debatte #Gesellschaft #kaizenkollektiv #niklasluhmann

  11. Some hashtags I'm looking for here - My work has been with #dialogue and #facilitation for many years. 👀 I practice the #artofhosting and what happens in the here-in-now #tavistock style. My focus is on how we do things together with words, #ontologyoflanguage and how that shapes our social and organisational life #workingwithstories #niklasluhmann