Wednesday 31st January 2018 at Newspeak House
Day 3 is about Viable Systems and continuing the Liquid Wiki sprint in the other half of the room.
11.00 Trevor E Hilder presenting and facilitating
11.15 Introductions over, we broach two major approaches to knowledge, transmission of it, and provoking the ability to see for yourself. Avicenna is introduced.
11.30 Stafford Beer is introduced.
11.35 Cybernetics is/are introduced.
11.40 Self-organization
11.50 W. Ross Ashby
12.00 Talking about directional channels, variety and bandwidth has reminded me of Xylem and Phloem.
12.15 Measuring Authoritarianism: "An organization's authoritarianism can be measured by comparing the variety exerted by System 1 management to that exerted by System 3."
12.25 System 4 is made up of bodies that are responsible for looking outwards to the environment to monitor how the organization needs to adapt to remain viable.
12.30 Homeostasis
12.35 Organizational Ethos, this is where policy comes from, System 5 is Policy.
12.45 Algedonic Signals, detecting an emergency condition
13.00 Conant-Ashby Theorem, Good Regulator
14.25 Resumed after lunch, Moral Modalities framework is introduced by Trevor.
14.45 David Graeber is mentioned, and his book Debt: The First 5000 Years
15.10 Jane Jacobs and Monstrous Moral Hybrids are mentioned, see Systems of Survival.
15.25 Adam Smith An inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
15.30 Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he coined 'paradigm shift'. Kuhn Cycle
15.40 Geoffrey Moore Crossing the Chasm
16.00 Barry Oshry Power and Systems
16.10 I mentioned Karl Polanyi and Michael Polanyi regarding Tacit Knowledge embedded within social groups.
16.30 The session concludes and we thank Trevor.