nearlydecomposable
Herb Simon and your life as nearly decomposable systems
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an interintellect salon
"discovery as problem solving"
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Introduction & Question
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What is something in your life you're trying to describe right now?
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Background to Herb Simon
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GROUP INTERESTS
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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
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problem solving &
decision making
GROUP QUESTIONS
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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
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State vs. process descriptions
the language is the program
benefit to simplicity
concept of description
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Fiction as a tool
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The Apple
Life's maze
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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
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