nearlydecomposable
Herb Simon and your life as nearly decomposable systems
an interintellect salon
"discovery as problem solving"
Introduction & Question
What is something in your life you're trying to describe right now?
Background to Herb Simon
GROUP INTERESTS
Healthcare >> Subsystems as health systems
Organizations >> Subsystems as teams
ML >> Subsystems as different ML systems
Local government >> Subsystems as policies
Disciplines >> Subsystems as different skill-sets, like music vs. engineering
heuristics
interests
problem solving &
decision making
GROUP QUESTIONS
About ND systems
How to negotiate reviewing existing systems vs. creating new systems?
How to deal with subsystems with the 'wrong' propinquity / links?
From what level do you look at the problem?
When do systems & sub-systems form?
boundedness
concept
complexity
& Where we see...
building teams
pace layers
managing stress
metaphor in narrative
coarse graining in science
learning
State vs. process descriptions
the language is the program
benefit to simplicity
concept of description
Fiction as a tool
The Apple
Life's maze
Links from the Salon
"The design principle that attention is scarce and must be preserved is very different from a principle of 'the more information the better.'"
-HS
Pre-reading:
The power of something to touch & manipulate
Links shared by participants:
By Simon
On Simon
On Heuristics
Instead of asking
"Can you explain it?" instead...
"Can you grow it?"
- JE & RA
Process Descriptions
On Metaphor & Storytelling
