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Thinking Systems 

October 13, 2021

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Robin Asby

Recent Webinars


Sapient paradox - screenshot

08-May-2024

The Sapient Paradox as the consequence of a cybernetical bifurcation in the evolution.


Dr. Peter Robertson

Why did humankind create such a moral and ecological mess of this world, and why have we done that for only about 10,000 years? This question might be related to the Sapient Paradox, which emerged after decades of archeological and neurophysiological research.


Metaphorum Webinar 03.04.2024 Pickering

03-Apr-2024

Cybernetics and the Environmental Crisis


Professor Andrew Pickering

Foreshadowing the disasters of the Anthropocene, in the late 1960s Gregory Bateson developed a cybernetic analysis of the environmental crisis which was then starting to be recognised. He argued that its roots lay in dualist fantasies of control of nat …


Language as an enabling constraint

06-Mar-2024

Language as an Enabling Constraint for Viability


Pille Bunnell

We are usually unaware that language imposes constraints on how we perceive, think and act, even as it is central to all that we do. What language enables is clearly apparent: all the cultures, technologies and designs we humans have created are ground …