Just a brief consolidating post from dialogues at ISSS-2025 in Birmingham, UK
(Have many other notes from many sessions, but this is just to link to my own presentation and significant references arising in dialogue.)
“Rehabilitating the Value of Wisdom” (2025)
[ Follow-up to “The Tyranny of the Explicit” (2024) ]
The presentation is again simply to start a necessarily much more complex conversation by establishing a starting point that “there is more than science” and that we value the integrated application of BOTH science and not-science (wisdom / more-than-science) and why that honesty – not flattening all discourse into would-be “science” – is necessary.
The full “Psybernetic” agenda of Psybertron is much more:
Ultimately the goal is to establish a complex, self-adaptive systemic “ecosystem” for complex, self-adaptive, systemic thinking and decision-making. (That’s a PhD Proposal – that would benefit from updating). This is unashamedly at a meta-level of conceptual abstraction – thinking about thinking and decision-making, over and above thinking about designing interventions, over and above any “doing”. A necessary praxis for thinking.
The most immediate tangible deliverable representing this systemic-thinking-and-decision-making-ecosystem is essentially an Ontology – an epistemic ontology for systems thinking against which any and all ongoing interventions, methods and actions may be mapped. Such an epistemic-ontology is necessarily philosophical and indeed necessarily metaphysical – more than science.
[The metaphysics is process-relational and information-computational. The basis is neuroscientific and neuropsychological. The sources and thinking embodying that aim and deliverable are this 25 years of “Psybertron” research-blogging with associated discourse and 25 years of industrial information systems engineering and thinking before that. Too much to summarise here, but currently being organised into (a) the PhD-style Thesis, (b) a “textbook” and (c) a magic-realism auto-fiction. Wish me luck.]
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Post Note: and immediately following that post, the “Epistemic Diversity” session with John Challoner, Mauricio Vieira Kritz and Rudolf Wirawan shows that we have a common project for this space and time to support multiple simultaneous diverse “views” of knowledge.
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