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The Meaning CodeMetamodernism, Transcending Critique, Optimal Degrees of Freedom and the Return of Board GamesBrendan Graham Dempsey and Cory Barker help Karen to gain a greater understanding of Metamodernism. Brendan is writer, poet, farmer, and systems thinker. As Director of Sky Meadow Institute, he works on productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality. Cory has a Master of Arts in Social Science and Informatics and is working on a PhD with a research focus on applying big picture thinking to improved AGI design. He serves as President of the Archdisciplinary Research Center (Arc.voyage) If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend my first conversation...2025-04-261h 25
Mahon McCann Podcast#88 - Alicia Juarrero - Why Context Changes EverythingAlicia Juarrero is President and co-founder of VectorAnalytica, Inc., and Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Miami. She is the author of Dynamics in Action (MIT Press) and recently, Context Changes Everything: How constraints create coherence (2023). Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence.Get the book 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262545667/Summary:In this conversation, we discusses 'Context Changes Everything' and the dismissal of context in...2024-09-121h 07
Human Energy PodcastBeyond Sovereignty and Submission: The complex role of the modern individual within the noosphere - Ari Makridakis - N2 Conference 2023Beyond Sovereignty and Submission: The complex role of the modern individual within the noospherePresented by Ari Makridakis as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, BerkeleyAlongside the emergence of the noosphere, the modern period has witnessed the birth of another, radically new planetary power: the autonomous, psychological individual. In this presentation, I will explore the relationship between these two titanic forces, asking what role sovereign, self-oriented individuals are meant to play in the creation of the noosphere.Within the academic community, this relationship is described in wildly different...2024-09-0136 min
Dr. John VervaekeSaintliness and the Philosophical Silk Road | Christopher Mastropietro & Andrew SweenyHave we confined the true essence of sainthood within too narrow a boundary? In this episode of 'Voices with Vervaeke,' John Vervaeke welcomes Christopher Mastropeitro and Andrew Sweeny for a discussion that delves into the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of their innovative project, the Philosophical Silk Road. Together, they challenge contemporary notions of sainthood and wisdom, drawing connections between Zen Buddhism, Neoplatonism, and Tantric practices. Through personal anecdotes and reflective dialogue, the trio examines the essence of saints and sages, the importance of humor and humility in spiritual journeys, and the delicate balance between our finite...2024-08-091h 20Dr. John VervaekeInsights from UTOK 2024 on Naturalism and Emergentism | Alexander Bard, Gregg Henriques, Bonnitta Roy & John VervaekeGregg Henriques is a clinical psychologist and professor at James Madison University. He is known for his Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK), which integrates various domains of psychology into a coherent framework. Bonnita Roy is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center, a non-profit educational organization and the curator of The POP-UP School, an online learning community exploring new ways of thinking and acting. Alexander Bard is a philosopher and futurist specializing in the relationship between humanity and technology, with a profound interest in psychoanalysis and anthropology to understand the impact of technological change on interpersonal re...2024-06-141h 50
Trigger Strategy046: Enabling constraintsSome constraints are limiting, some are enabling. But what's the difference? What if most constraints are both at the same time? (Depending to some degree on your perspective.) We talk through lots of examples of constraints from design and Twitter poetry, through Lindy Hop and yoga, all the way into business breakfasts and research operations.We reference a book by Alicia Juarrero. we can't remember the title during the podcast. It's Context Changes Everything: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545662/context-changes-everything/We also reference some past episodes where we talk about emergent properties and hint...2024-05-1441 minTrigger Strategy046: Enabling constraintsSome constraints are limiting, some are enabling. But what's the difference? What if most constraints are both at the same time? (Depending to some degree on your perspective.) We talk through lots of examples of constraints from design and Twitter poetry, through Lindy Hop and yoga, all the way into business breakfasts and research operations.We reference a book by Alicia Juarrero. we can't remember the title during the podcast. It's Context Changes Everything: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545662/context-changes-everything/We also reference some past episodes where we talk about emergent properties and hint...2024-05-1441 min
Social DisciplineSD40 - w/ Alicia Juarrero - Context Changes EverythingIn this episode of Social Discipline, we're joined by the renowned philosopher and complexity scientist, Alicia Juarrero. Alicia delves into the intricate world of causality in complex systems, offering insights from her seminal work, Dynamics in Action and Context Changes Everything. Throughout our conversation, she unpacks the principles of complexity and their implications for understanding human behavior and decision-making processes. We also explore how her theories challenge traditional views of causality and control in both social and natural sciences. Additionally, Alicia shares her thoughts on the ethical dimensions of complexity, particularly how they relate to issues of freedom and responsibility...2024-04-211h 25
Future Learning Design PodcastContext Changes Everything - A Conversation with Dr. Alicia JuarreroAlicia Juarrero, is Co-Founder and President of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College (MD).
She is the author of Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence, published last year: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5600/Context-Changes-EverythingHow-Constraints-Create
Her other books are Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT 1999) and co-editor of Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from North and South (ISCE Publishing, 2007), and Emergence, Self-Organization and Complexity: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, 2008).
Alicia was named the 2002 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for the Adva...2024-02-1152 min
Living Mirrors with Dr. James CookeAlicia Juarrero on emergence & causality as constraint | Living Mirrors #121Alicia Juarrero is President and co-founder of VectorAnalytica, Inc., a data collection and analysis platform. She is also a research associate at the University of Miami and is the author for influential complexity theory text Dynamics in Action. Her new book is called Context Changes Everything and it explores how we can think about causality in emergent systems, such as living things, in terms of constraint.2023-12-151h 11
The Deep DiveEpisode 172: Constraints, Complexity & Context (Oh My!) w/ Alicia JuarreroPhilip spends time with educator/writer/philosopher Alicia Juarrero discussing her latest book Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. In their conversation, they cover how complexity has become a widely used but largely misunderstood term, the significance of context and different ways of knowing.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
Pluto (Netflix)
Alicia’s Drop:
A book by Antonio Benitez-Rojo called The Repeating Island Special Guest: Alicia Juarrero.2023-11-3057 min
No Way OutConstraints, Context, Complexity, and Culture with Alicia Juarrero, PhD | Ep 52Send us a textAt the heart of an organization is a web of interdependencies, with elements such as task interdependence, reward systems, and even the smallest artifacts influencing behavior. These interactions and relationships bring an organization to life, allowing it to adapt, evolve, and respond to changes. By understanding these dynamics, leaders can effectively navigate the complexities of their organizations, creating a more robust and adaptive structure. Complex systems are not bound by the second law of thermodynamics. Rather, they continue to evolve in ways that can seem perplexing at first. Through a detailed di...2023-10-301h 22
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesAlicia Juarrero: Context Changes EverythingGrounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence.
Alicia is the author of multiple books, most recently Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. Helen says in this interview that it feels like this book is from the future. It’s about using the tools of complexity science to understand identity, hierarchy, and top-down causation, and in so doing, presents a new way of thinking about the natural world but al...2023-10-221h 04
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This show is sp...2023-09-281h 39Dr. John VervaekeMythology & Modern Minds | Transcendent Naturalism #10In episode 10 of the Transcendent Naturalism series, Dr. John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, and guest Brett Andersen delve into the intricate relationship between science, spirituality, and modern mythology. The episode is a tour de force of intellectual exploration, covering topics from self-organizing criticality to the philosophy of order and chaos. Andersen offers a compelling presentation on the role of modern myths like the Matrix trilogy in understanding our complex world. Dr. Vervaeke and Henriques provide counterpoints and extensions to Andersen's arguments, enriching the discussion with their own expertise in philosophy and psychology. The episode also explores the role of consciousness...2023-09-141h 26
Brain InspiredBI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes EverythingCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience
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Alicia Juarrero is a philosopher and has been interested in complexity since before it was cool.
In this episode, we discuss many of the topics and ideas in her new book, Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence, which makes the thorough case that constraints should be given way more attention when trying to understand complex systems like brains and minds - how they're organized, how t...2023-09-131h 45Dr. John VervaekeThe Meaning of Meaning | Transcendent Naturalism #7In Episode 7 of TN, John and Gregg welcome Brendan Graham Dempsey. Brendan is a writer, theologian, and theorist whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He is also the host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast, and he runs the Skymeadow Retreat, which has hosted several metamodern spirituality events. In this episode, Brendan shares about his recent work, which he wrote about in Emergentism, and from his in-progress work on the meaning of meaning. He shows how his work, UTOK, and Bobby Azarian’s unified theory of reality can provide a framework to de...2023-08-241h 15
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghanC. Thi Nguyen - This conversation will change how you see the worldThere is something irresistible about the way C. Thi Nguyen thinks about and structures the world. From the lenses of trust, art, games, and communities he thinks about seemingly everything. In each of these topics, he's written pieces that I consider to be among the most important works on them. Origins WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Games: Agency as Art (01:55)Anne Harrington (07:20)The Great Endarkenment Elijah Millgram (09:20)Trust and Antitrust Annette BaierHostile Epistemology (21:20)The natural selection of bad science Paul Smaldino (26:40)The Grasshopper Bernard Suits (32:20)Context Changes Everything Alicia...2023-07-251h 15
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 191 Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and CoherenceJim talks with Alicia Juarrero about her new book Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. They discuss Aristotle's four causes, applying them to complex dynamical systems, the overfocus on efficient cause, naive Newtonianism, nothing-but-ism, reconceptualizing causality in terms of constraints, mereology, constraint regimes, ascribing causal powers to emergent properties, the roots of panpsychism, Searle's comparison of consciousness with digestion, kinds of constraints, the Dysons' notion of analog control, why analog is more efficient, identity as a set of interdependent constraints, surface vs deep dyslexia & early neural nets, the work of Geoffrey Hinton, the species competitive exclusion principle, cardinality vs o...2023-07-141h 23Dr. John VervaekeEp. 6 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Aristotle, Kant, and EvolutionBooks in the Video: •Alicia Juarrero - Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System •Eric Perl - Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition •Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch, and Evan Thompson - The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Sixth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.2023-04-0354 min
Pravidelná dávka271. Alicia Juarrero: Komplexné systémy odhaľujú novú kauzalituČo má spoločné Santa Fe, ľudská bunka či embryo, náš mozog a tiež napríklad zemská klíma a jej ekosystém? V kocke sú všetky príkladmi toho, čo nazývame komplexné systémy, ktoré nie sú zaujímavé len z pohľadu vedy, ale aj filozofie. A ak sa pýtate, či je hlavné mesto štátu Nové Mexiko tiež komplexný systém, nie až tak úplne, ale od roku 1984 je sídlom Santa Fe Institute, ktorý bol prvou organizáciou zaoberajúcou sa multidisciplinárnym štúdiom základných princípov komplexných systémov.
V dnešnej dávke predstavím komplexn...2022-11-2914 min
Boundaryless Conversations PodcastS04 Ep. 04 Alicia Juarrero - The Biological Reality of OrganizingAlicia Juarrero is founder and president of VectorAnalytica with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a research associate. She is the author of the book Dynamics in Action (2008), and the upcoming Context Changes Everything (2023), both published by MIT Press.
We’ve all heard about how organizations are like natural organisms, but is that really true? And if it is, how can we get inspired by nature in designing and understanding them?
In this episode, we talk to Alicia about her work in complexity theory and how it ap...2022-11-2949 min
Quality BitsQuality, Cynefin and bugs with Steve UptonIn this initial episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Steve Upton about the definition of quality, Cynefin, deleting the bugs (?!!!), and so much more.Find Steve on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/steve_upton?lang=en- LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/stevejuptonBook recommendations:"Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions" by Gary Klein"Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System" by Alicia Juarrero "Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World" by Dave Snowden & friends"Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex S...2022-09-0535 minOrigins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghanAlicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexityAlicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College and the author of Dynamics in Action, a text that many consider to have laid the foundation for how we think about complexity in our society. So Alicia is a philosopher for this moment in human history.Show Notes:Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (03:31)Live the questionsDuino ElegiesUser Friendly by Cliff Kuang (11:50)Herbert Simon and the importance of information diet (12:50)The Self-Organizing Universe by Erich Jantsch (15:00)Dave Snowden Cynefin Framework (20:00)Dave on OriginsAristotelian four causes (22:30)Emergence (27:40)Network th...2022-08-091h 08
Kvantum ideíZmena a dynamické systémy63. EPIZÓDA / Dnes pokračujeme v diskusii o slobodnej vôli a determinizme a to z pohľadu povahy zmeny a dynamický systémov. V čom sú živé organizmy iné od zvyšku sveta? Sme schopní podieľať sa na vlastnej zmene? A tým pádom slobodnú vôľu? Ako do tejto diskusie vstupuje kubánska neurovedkyňa a filozofka Alicia Juarrero s jej neo-aristotelovským pohľadom na organizmy ako na dynamické seba-organizujúce sa systémy?----more----
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Q.west for good: Change leadership stories with Denise WithersKarl Schroeder: Preparing for the future, with stories"By telling a story, you put in motion this vast sort of undercurrent of cognitive abilities that we all have for determining what's plausible. What's likely? What would play against what else? And there's nothing quite like narrative for doing that."---Leaders and organizations live and die by their ability to plan for and navigate the future. While tools such as data and analytics have a key role to play, the most powerful way to explore and shape the future is through the lens of story. Nobody knows that better than award-winning science...2022-01-0732 minOrigins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghanDave Snowden - Sensemaking, complexity, and frameworks for livingFor years Dave Snowden has helped me understand how to navigate a complex world better than perhaps any other thinker. He draws so widely from all schools of thought in forming frameworks for sensemaking.This episode is expanding. It will be with me for a long time and I hope it stays with you, too. Read more at: https://www.originspodcast.co/episodes-1Show Notes:Complicated vs complex (08:00)Paul CilliersDynamics in Action Alicia Juarrero Lecture: "How not to manage complexity"The Patterning Instinct Jeremy Lent (16:00)Tropes in narrative theory (17:50)Assemblage an...2022-01-041h 01
The Systemic Insight podcastChris Corrigan: in our most creative moments, we feel invited into working togetherIn this episode of the Systemic Insight Podcast, Marcus talks with Chris Corrigan. Chris is a facilitator and an expert in complexity-sensitive facilitation techniques. He has been using similar methods and frameworks as Mesopartner, such as for example the Cynefin framework, developed by Prof. Dave Snowden. Chris describes himself as a process artist, a teacher and a facilitator of social technologies for face to face conversation in the service of emergence. His business is supporting invitation: the invitation to collaborate, to organise, to find one another and make a difference in our communities, organisations and lives. Marcus...2020-06-291h 28
Through the NoiseDaniel Brooks, Author of The Stockholm ParadigmOn Daniel Brooks: Professor emeritus, University of Toronto, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. Working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease (current major project with the Hungarian National Institute of Ecology). The crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and eradicating the...2020-03-251h 17
Through the NoiseAlicia Juarrero, Co-Founder & CEO of VectorAnalyticaDr. Alicia Juarrero is Co-Founder and CEO of VectorAnalytica, a tech startup that develops platforms for epidemiological surveillance worldwide. She is also the author of MIT-published Dynamics in Action, Intentional Behavior as a Complex System, one of the foundational texts exploring philosophical implications of complexity and chaos theories. VectorAnalytica designs and develops IT solutions to monitor, track, anticipate, and contain mosquito- and other vector-borne diseases worldwide. Find out more here.2019-10-0859 min
Awakening from the Meaning CrisisEp. 6 - Aristotle, Kant, and EvolutionVideo series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
•Alicia Juarrero - Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System
•Eric Perl - Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition
•Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch, and Evan Thompson - The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience2019-02-2254 min
UX Discovery Session PodcastDS012 :: Will Evans of The Library Corporation / Lean UX NYCUXDiscoverySession.com Podcast:
This episode features an interview with Will Evans of The Library Corporation / Lean UX NYC
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Dave Maloof
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The Ladders
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Russell L. Ackoff
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Edwards Deming
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User Experience Research
David Snowden
Alicia Juarrero
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System
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