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.site-header --> 212 213 <div id="content" class="site-content"> 214 215 <div id="primary" class="content-area"> 216 <main id="main" class="site-main"> 217 218 219 <header class="page-header"> 220 <h1 class="page-title">Author: <span>Psybertron</span></h1> </header><!-- .page-header --> 221 222 223<article id="post-21203" class="post-21203 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> 224 <header class="entry-header"> 225 226 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/21203" rel="bookmark">There Has To Be A Better Way</a></h2> </header><!-- .entry-header --> 227 228 229 230 <div class="entry-content"> 231 232<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Continuing with most of my new writing on <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/">Substack at</a> <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/">https://psybertron.substack.com/</a> but still making updates and linking notes here.</p> 233 234 235 236<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" width="840" height="350" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?resize=840%2C350&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-21204" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?resize=1024%2C427&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?resize=300%2C125&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?resize=767%2C320&ssl=1 767w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?resize=1200%2C501&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image.png?w=1400&ssl=1 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></figure> 237 238 239 240<p class="has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>HOUSEKEEPING</strong></p> 241 242 243 244<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Four updates at Substack</strong> since <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/21110">I last rounded-up here in August</a>.</p> 245 246 247 248<ul class="wp-block-list"> 249<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/values-into-action"><strong>Values Into Action</strong></a><br />– a “review” of Mark Carney’s 2021 book “Values”</li> 250 251 252 253<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/an-old-story"><strong>An Old Story</strong></a><br />– a “review” of Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me”</li> 254 255 256 257<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/sign-of-the-times"><strong>Sign of the Times?</strong></a><br />– a recap on “illusionism” in the sciences & philosophies of consciousness & free-will, prompted by a hit on an older piece.</li> 258 259 260 261<li><a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/technology-driven-economy"><strong>Technology Driven Economy</strong></a><br />– a riff on where so-called AI might be leading us, prompted by Dave Snowden referring to Brian Arthur’s talk to the Adam Smith Institute’s “New Enlightenment 2026 Conference”.</li> 262</ul> 263 264 265 266<p class="has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>PREAMBLE</strong></p> 267 268 269 270<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After a few days away walking in the (English) Lakes, I was at <strong>the <a href="https://www.systemspractice.org/Schedule26">SCiO “SysPrac2026” conference</a> in Cranfield Uni</strong>, Monday and Tuesday this week.</p> 271 272 273 274<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As ever, I have lots of notes from individual sessions, which I won’t spend any time making presentable here, just some overall impressions taken away.</p> 275 276 277 278<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Large event ~200 attendees, and great facilities & service quality for conference sessions, large and small and for the catering. (<em>Only minor downside was the “Cranfield Management Development Centre” accommodation / dining space and the “Vincent Building” conference facility were at opposite ends of the campus, even though the former also had extensive conference facilities?</em>)</p> 279 280 281 282<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Great facilities, but the facilitators in the main / larger hall in particular should probably have done better with the sound level. Also, a tendency for the key officers / members of the SCiO to start off on first name terms with each other, presuming everyone knew who they were, without each introducing themselves. That said, great diversity of membership, majority women and a younger generation evident to replace the old guard.</p> 283 284 285 286<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I was in lurking (listening and learning) mode, no direct participation this time, same as the Hull CSS conference earlier this year. Many old and new faces, and several specific new topic contacts to follow-up. That counts as success for my own research and writing.</p> 287 288 289 290<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What I was put in mind of, is how many different overlapping / complementary groups there are in this space with varying degrees of collaboration. Some are just networks on platforms like LinkedIn or WordPress blogs, some are free-emailing lists, some are low-overhead membership and some are proper corporate / professional and or academic institutions, and some special interest combinations of all of these. Below are a few where I’ve had at least some interaction:</p> 291 292 293 294<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The IFSR (<a href="https://ifsr.org/members/">Institute for Systems Research</a>)</strong> is set up as a coordinating umbrella organisation whose members and affiliates are many of those other organisations, 20 of which are listed.</p> 295 296 297 298<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The LinkedIn (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2639211/">Systems Thinking Network</a>)</strong> has 50,000 individual members, many of whom are also members of one or more of the other groups.
298</p> 299 300 301 302<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The SCiO (<a href="https://www.systemspractice.org/">Systems and Complexity in Organisation</a>)</strong> is cheap and cheerful as well as professional, with ~600 members and ~1500 subscribers. <em>Having been a subscriber, I am now in 2026 a full member. It has the most fitting name for an organisation in this space.</em></p> 303 304 305 306<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The ISSS (<a href="https://www.isss.org/home/">International Society for the Systems Sciences</a>)</strong> is another smaller group with ~160 members, <em>where I have been a full member for 4 years or so</em>.</p> 307 308 309 310<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>INCOSE (<a href="https://www.incose.org/about-incose/">International Council on Systems Engineering</a>)</strong> has ~27,000 paid-up members and is the most corporate of the professional organisations. <em>I’ve never actually been a member, but have crossed paths with very smart individual members since around 2008, in both day-job and independent-research contexts.</em></p> 311 312 313 314<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>SysCOI (<a href="https://stream.syscoi.com/">Systems Community of Inquiry</a>)</strong> is an open source blog sharing links to pretty much all and every resource published under the auspices of any of the other groups.</p> 315 316 317 318<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>CSS (<a href="https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-systems-studies">Centre for Systems Studies</a>)</strong> at Hull University (<em>not to be confused with Hull students union Computer Science Society</em>). <em>First came into contact with Hull CSS via their annual Mike Jackson lectures in June 2021 with the Carlo Rovelli and Paul Mason keynotes on Aleksander Bogdanov. Mike has become the epitome of pragmatism for me in this “complex self-adaptive systems” space.</em></p> 319 320 321 322<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Cynefin</strong> – <a href="https://thecynefin.co/about-us/about-cynefin-framework/">Dave Snowden’s management consulting vehicle</a>, much referenced by other practitioners mostly, but not always, positively. (<em>Over the years, Dave has a fully elaborated and extended definition of that Welsh word he used to name his entity not to mention the approaches to methodologies behind it. Perhaps controversially, I think of the pre-existing word Cynefin translating to “comfort zone” – in the sense it’s the environment our thinking inhabits quite naturally, comfortably, even though we can never fully understand it or why, without some meta-thinking about our thinking. The philosophically abstract is distinct from the practical methodologies, but we need both. I’ve been crossing paths with Dave’s work since 2002/3 in knowledge-management contexts</em>.)</p> 323 324 325 326<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>ASC (<a href="https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-systems-studies">American Society for Cybernetics</a>)</strong></p> 327 328 329 330<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>UKSS (<a href="https://systemsforum.org/">UK Systems Society</a>)</strong></p> 331 332 333 334<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>OR (<a href="https://www.theorsociety.com/">Operations Research Society</a>)</strong></p> 335 336 337 338<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Metaphorum (<a href="https://metaphorum.org/">Organisational Cybernetics of Stafford Beer</a>)</strong></p> 339 340 341 342<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Школа ÑиÑÑемного менеджменÑа (<a href="https://system-school.ru/">Russian School of Systems Management</a>)</strong> founded by Anatoly Levenchuk when the Russian Chapter of INCOSE lost its US affiliation. <em>Anatoly is one of those “smart INCOSE people” who after my 40+ years engineering systems of all kinds, hard and soft, introduced me to the idea around 2008/09 that “systems” were recognised as a thing in their own right. Ironic since Cybernetics and the 1946 Macy Conferences were central to my Psybertron research project from the outset in 2001. He invited me to speak at INCOSE conferences in Moscow in 2010 and Nizhny-Novgorod in 2011. Those other two INCOSE smarts were his colleague Victor Agroskin and, quite separately, Rob Black of UKAEA around 2020/21.</em></p> 343 344 345 346<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And any number of other <strong>leadership, management and government</strong>
346 interest groups and academic schools …</p> 347 348 349 350<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Some for Systems, some for Complexity. Some for Thinking generally, some for Science more narrowly, some for Engineering(*) even more narrowly, some for Research, some for Cybernetics (Organisation, Management and Governance).</p> 351 352 353 354<p class="has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>SO WHAT?</strong></p> 355 356 357 358<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The common interest is in better <em>systemic understanding</em> of how the world works through human organisations. The better we understand how the world <em>really </em>works, the better we can organise ourselves to act for better future outcomes. With so many seemingly existential poly-crises and/or meta-crisis to concern us, there is increasing clamour – <em><strong>there has to be a better way </strong></em>– all the way from personal lifestyle through every human organisation to local, national and supra-national government and development. </p> 359 360 361 362<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One way or another these better understanding and decision-making considerations lead us to government and governance more generally. Democracy or the next best thing, not forgetting how we decide what is “better” anyway?</p> 363 364 365 366<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Given the scale and urgency facing us, there is a strong recent focus in the activities of these interest groups on <em><strong>practical implementation</strong></em> and engagement with those institutions that most directly influence our collective governance.</p> 367 368 369 370<ul class="wp-block-list"> 371<li>The Hull CSS 2026 conference in March this year was entitled “<strong>Systems Thinking Systems Practice</strong>” bridging the gap between theory and practice.</li> 372 373 374 375<li>The ISSS 2026 conference in June was themed “<strong>Elevating Systems Science to Address Humanityâs Greatest Challenges</strong>” followed by “<strong>Reimagining our World Systemically – From Problematique to Purposeful Action</strong>“</li> 376 377 378 379<li>The SciO 2026 conference earlier this week was advertised as a follow-on from the Hull CSS event explicitly entitled “<strong>Systems Practice (SysPrac) 2026</strong>“.</li> 380</ul> 381 382 383 384<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A Better Way?</strong> – the periodic re-imagining of the world as a better place is as old as philosophical literature itself, from Plato’s Republic via Utopian literature arising from the ages of enlightenment and revolution (Thomas More, Karl Marx, Aleksander Bogdanov, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, H G Wells, Aldous Huxley, etc.) and the post-war <em><strong>world-in-crisis</strong></em> soul-searching of The Vienna Circle (after WW1) and The Macy Conferences (after WW2). It’s worth understanding the history of what these thinkers hoped a better future might be AND how it might be achieved, <em>quite separate from</em> any imperfections in their thinking and the errors by those empowered to implement them.</p> 385 386 387 388<p class="has-dark-red-color has-yellow-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph"><strong>There really is a better way to be had if we put our minds to it.</strong></p> 389 390 391 392<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Systemic Thinking?</strong> – the use of the value neutral terms “systems thinking” has stuck in recent years, but it is quite frankly exactly what had been termed Cybernetics (quite literally, governance) by Norbert Wiener following those Macy conferences. (<em>I’ve personally chosen to spell it Psyber-netics to reinforce the living human psychology intent of the original “cyber” term, so distorted in highly successful electro-mechanical control and electronic computing usage in the decades since</em>. There’s a tendency to associate cybernetics distinctly with “feedback” in so-called homeostatic control systems, but right out of the gate systems of complex (ie real) human organisations have had feed-back, feed-forward and feed-any-which-way communications as evidenced by the multiple loops and levels of abstraction in “organisational learning” models since the 70’s.)</p> 393 394 395 396<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Theory into Practice?</strong> – with the scale and interconnected complexity of the “crises” facing us, there is a perfectly rational desire, and good reason, to get on with it. A “Theory of Action”. To avoid analysis paralysis, to avoid the perfect as the enemy of the good-enough, etc, to put any one or a pragmatic, <em>heuristic</em>, combination of the multiple methodologies available into action. It’s the rational choice because predictability of real outcomes is severely restricted when dealing with genuine complexity. Predictability is limited to the <em>kinds </em>of processes that will happen at various levels of abstraction and <strong>not </strong>to specific outcomes. Though scientifically explicable in terms of processes, the predictability of future states, desirable or otherwise, is <strong><em>#MoreThanScience</em></strong>. Ready, fire, aim means action produces early results that can be used to learn and adjust future actions sooner. (<em>Ironically, very close to the WW2 weapons guidance thinking that originally produced Cybernetics</em>. *)</p> 397 398 399 400<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Best Practice for Thinking?</strong> – whilst moving to practical action sooner is perfectly rational, we do well to remember that our better way includes better ways of thinking too. To think is to act at a different level of abstraction. We need to learn to improve our thinking as well as our explicit actions. We need best / better practice(s) for thinking as well as best practice methodologies. The ambiguous lack of punctuation in the “Systems Thinking Systems Practice” title of the March conference reminds us to apply systems thinking to our systems thinking practices. To take our own medicine.</p> 401 402 403 404<p class="has-dark-red-color has-yellow-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph">As part of better systems thinking practices, my own focus is <em>unashamedly </em>at those levels of abstraction above practical application, where it has maximum explanatory understanding and predictive power. Somebody has to do it. It’
404s what both Levenchuk’s “Systems Thinking 2020 – <em>there is ALWAYS thinking to be done over and above actual project planning to act</em>” – and the higher loops of multi-loop organisational learning architectures, are about. The different architectural layers are not optional. Our thinking is part of the real world. We mustn’t flatten the abstract thinking out of our specific plans to act.</p> 405 406 407 408<p class="has-dark-red-color has-yellow-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph"><strong>I’m here to defend that better abstract thinking.</strong></p> 409 410 411 412<p class="wp-block-paragraph">=====</p> 413 414 415 416<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That “So What?” essay section above will be brought forward into the Psybertron Substack – and elaborated with another draft already started there.</p> 417 418 419 420<p class="wp-block-paragraph">=====</p> 421 422 423 424<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(*) As I often point out “engineering” has
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I’m suggesting beyond a certain level of wealth the marginal tax rate should be <em>agreed to be</em> 100% – achieving it is a whole ‘nother set of questions – and how rich is too rich, etc. (How free-democratic nation states, and their supra-national arrangements, operate is the natural end game of Systems / Cybernetic / Governance thinking.)</p> 512 513 514 515<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Note that this has nothing to do with limiting freedoms to earn etc, or the general unfairness of grotesque wealth disparities between individuals (though that ought to be an issue) – just a basic pragmatic orderly society question. How can we <em>govern ourselves</em> if … ?</p> 516 517 518 519<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The prompt for capturing this stub today is the emerging consequence of the US (and other) national debts hitting multi-Trillion record highs, and economic commentators warning of potential disastrous consequences. The feature that many are pointing out is that gilt / government bond rates are creeping up to unprecedented levels too. A major lever of government regulation of national finances has been that government treasuries were the lender of last resort – with the steadiest / safest (lowest rate) source of investment funding. What’s changed? Some of the tech-bros can now compete for that lending business. (<em>Check – have I got that summary the right way round? – either way the point is individual entities are becoming “bigger” than nation states in these markets that regulate interest and inflation rates especially in times of national / international financial and banking crises. “Scary” as an actual Bank of England ex-chairman said this morning, ditto Andrew Neil watching the gilts markets yesterday and the debts this morning US 40Tn / UK 3Tn.</em>)</p> 520 521 522 523<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 524<div class="embed-x"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Itâs official: US national debt passed the $40 trillion mark on Tuesday. And set to continue rising for as far as the eye can see.</p>— Andrew Neil (@afneil) <a href="https://x.com/afneil/status/2090337734116159633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2026</a></blockquote></div> 525</div></figure> 526 527 528 529<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 530<div class="embed-x"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Currently 5.08. Whereâs Faisal?! <a href="https://t.co/FdVPQgL9ZL">
530https://t.co/FdVPQgL9ZL</a></p>— Andrew Neil (@afneil) <a href="https://x.com/afneil/status/2089643238265118886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2026</a></blockquote></div> 531</div></figure> 532 533 534 535<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 536<div class="embed-x"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The US National debt this week passed $40 trillion. Not £4 trillion. <a href="https://t.co/ZqnZxFzmVN">https://t.co/ZqnZxFzmVN</a></p>— Andrew Neil (@afneil) <a href="https://x.com/afneil/status/2090696413478883394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2026</a></blockquote></div> 537</div></figure> 538 539 540 541<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 542<div class="embed-x"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The UK borrowed another £1.8bn last month, taking the national debt to within a whisker to £2.985tn in July. I thought it would pass £3 trillion this summer. That will now happen in the autumn. <br>The main drivers of more borrowing were welfare and pension payments, which rose 7.2%â¦</p>— Andrew Neil (@afneil) <a href="https://x.com/afneil/status/2090702661301530820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2026</a></blockquote></div> 543</div></figure> 544 545 546 547<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d8z72nn02o">BBC story on the US and comparison to others</a> inc UK, the key point being that because the US$ is still the main base currency the US can actually get away with the risk for longer than the rest of us. The risks are real if any new political or financial crisis arises.</p> 548 549 550 551<p class="wp-block-paragraph">=====</p> 552 553 554 555<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Previously here on Psybertron:</p> 556 557 558 559<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/19392">Borders vs Business – from last year</a>. 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Love the person too. In a casual trip to the local bookshop I was passing today, I noticed her “Mother Mary Comes To Me” latest title. The title is a song lyric, a Beatles song. Last weekend’s Sunday Session playlist, was Beatles covers. Apparently her mother Mary didn’t say “Let It Be”. It’s a memoir with 40-odd short, titled chapters I noticed “What’s So Funny [’bout]?” and “Declaration of Love” which put me instantly in mind of my last post about <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/whats-so-funny-bout">Jason Arday being ridiculed when talking about his “Axis of Love”</a> and his use of song titles and lyrics in his work. Anyway, none of those things are actually connected, but I bought the book on spec and have already started to read. <strong>(<a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/an-old-story">Read and reviewed here</a>.) </strong></p> 687 688 689 690<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Oh, and wow, the links never end. 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The photo was also awarded Picture of the Year 2006 (photo courtesy Joakim Berglund / Expressen).</figcaption></figure> 881 882 883 884<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s actually the salvage logging clear-up from a hurricane event in Sweden, so it’s questionable how much of the shape is due to the wind-damage process and how much is due to tracks of the logging operation, but the result is a distinctly tree-shaped hole in the forest. <a href="https://bioenergyinternational.com/the-aftermath-and-legacy-of-storm-gudrun-20-years-on/">Re-documented here 20 years after “Storm Gudrun”</a>.</p> 885 886 887 888<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Today’s context is that I was reminded of the missing image above when I saw this short MP4 below showing the rivulets left behind a tide ebbing over the mudflats of a Chinese river. 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Turned down a couple of gigs and writing of reviews – they’re my escape from the intellectual project(s), but it’s easy to fill your time with those instead. Also avoiding a couple of conferences I’d normally support, to the point of feeling guilty, but still found myself reading – all writing / research related but – nevertheless:</p> 982 983 984 985<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hard copies of these two:</p> 986 987 988 989<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="840" height="630" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=840%2C630&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-21069" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?w=1680&ssl=1 1680w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG20260618105225.jpg?w=2520&ssl=1 2520w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></figure> 990 991 992 993<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And a Kindle copy of this:</p> 994 995 996 997<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ProtoSpinney.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="664" height="1024" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ProtoSpinney.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-21071" style="aspect-ratio:0.6484400128658733;width:362px;
997height:auto" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ProtoSpinney.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&ssl=1 664w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ProtoSpinney.jpg?resize=195%2C300&ssl=1 195w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ProtoSpinney.jpg?resize=768%2C1184&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.psybertron.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ProtoSpinney.jpg?w=973&ssl=1 973w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></figure> 998 999 1000 1001<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, in the order I’ve read them:</p> 1002 1003 1004 1005<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Charlie Higson’s history of our Kings and Queens</strong>. Not normally the kind of stuff I’d read, but wittily and readably done, with satirical / topical references to our 21st C politics. Like “<em>1066 and all that</em>, only accurate” – according to <em>the </em>Tom Holland. (I guess I was sub-consciously interested because of my mother’s post-Norman local-history that we published last year.) Read start to finish in just a couple of sessions. Recommended.</p> 1006 1007 1008 1009<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Andrea Wulf’s “The Traveller” biography of George Forster</strong>. Bought on the strength of her <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/18123">two previous biographies of Humboldt and the Jena Set</a>, and it’s getting great reviews. In the same way that Humboldt was the first “ecologist” Forster was the first “human rights” advocate, where humanity included the locals encountered on his youthful foreign travels with his father in 1760’s Russia and with 1770’s James Cook. So many overlaps and influences on the great and the good (and the not so good). Mind-bogglingly fascinating. Won’t be reading to a conclusion for now, but recommended and back on the shelf as reference for now.</p> 1010 1011 1012 1013<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Laura Spinney’s “Proto” is a history of language</strong> (and geography, civilisations and culture) through the <em><strong>Proto-Indo-European language family</strong></em>. One of those topics I’ve <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/?s=PIE%20Proto&sort=relevance">written about multiple times before 2005/07/13/16</a>, but always tainted with doubt as to the authenticity of “Aryan” stories told by 19th/2oth-C white, western, ex-colonialists. It’s real alright, 10,000 years of language, <em>before written history</em>, and now backed by so much 21st-C science in archaeology and genealogy. Endlessly fascinating already, after the front and end matter and just a couple of chapters. (<em>A hobby-horse of mine; lots of those “rules” of sound and spelling changes as languages migrate, b<>v and art<>craft<>rta etc, which reveal essentially the same words across languages that diverged millennia ago</em>. <em>And, even the good-old “Mama” as first word / sounds of human offspring before any actual language “learning” – topical in recent days with “two-Dads” parenting cases</em>.) (<em><strong>Post Note</strong> – hat tip to <a href="https://x.com/si_ad/status/2076820666226032656?s=20">Simon Adams for this Claude-AI attempt</a> at the language tree</em>.)</p> 1014 1015 1016 1017<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Will also put aside for future reference for now.</p> 1018 1019 1020 1021<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Back to the writing – picking-up on the inputs to my “Identity and Distinction” chapter from <a href="https://psybertron.substack.com/p/pirsigs-4-layer-metaphysics">the RPA Dialogue with Keith Gillette</a>. 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In that sense they are “bottom-up” atrocities, <em>not primarily</em> decreed by authorities, except in some specific infamous “holocaust” cases where The Pattern was exploited by authorities. And it’s the <em>impulse to legitimise</em> hurting, not necessarily actively hurting, let alone killing. And the meme is not itself active “Jew-hate”, that’s also a symptom arising regularly from The Pattern.<br /><br />It obviously conflicts with many other moralities in other (eg Christian) cultures, but has always been “accommodated” even if that is reducing in more recent history. The Pattern sustains, without actively being worked against. The accommodation – of the legitimisation impulse – is built into society’s world-views, quite formally and explicitly so by Augustine and Martin Luther, say. These are often rationally perverse and contradictory, often intended to help Jews, softening the impulse from active killing, without actually reversing the impulse.</p> 1317 1318 1319 1320<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That it exists and persists has clear evidence over 2500 years, even if we cannot clearly say why, when or where it arose. The whole interview is excellent on historical and modern examples through the crusades, the renaissance and reformation to today. (Dated after October 7th, and prior to the Bondi Beach atrocity.) “<strong>Anti-semitism as a mind-virus</strong>?” is the host’s sceptical summary, which I would also adopt non-sceptically as Deutsch’s memetic thesis. (He used “meme” at the start, but baulks at “mind-virus” – I’m OK with either. Strong intersection with the empathy meme / impulse – more later – often not real empathy or compassion, more part of post-rationalisation of one’s own impulses.)</p> 1321 1322 1323 1324<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> 1325<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“This [the pattern] isn’t the only irrationality going around.” Deutsch.</p> 1326</blockquote> 1327 1328 1329 1330<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’ll say! – Pretty much my agenda, <a href="https://www.psybertron.org/archives/20736">where the antisemitism and islamophobia cases are mere examples</a>. If we had the right / better understanding of the phenomenon, surely we’d be better placed to address it, opines David. Hear, hear!</p> 1331 1332 1333 1334<p class="wp-block-paragraph">=====</p> 1335 1336 1337 1338<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 1339<iframe loading="lazy" title="David Deutsch on the Pattern 12/22/25" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kRhJ20713wc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;
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[<em>Will dig out text, but FB is very badly behaved</em>.]</p> 1444 1445 1446 1447<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I didn’t yet respond to the content of this one about <strong>the rationality of optimism</strong>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/215610305261879?multi_permalinks=3653155628173979&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen">The FB Post</a>. My holding response – depends pragmatically on narrow vs broad definitions of both words. Hat tip Mark Hammonds.</p> 1448 1449 1450 1451<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Further to last week’s <strong>Blake</strong> post <a href="https://iai.tv/articles/heisenberg-meets-william-blake-the-danger-of-sciences-single-vision-auid-3379">a piece from IAI linking Blake to Heisenberg</a>.</p> 1452 1453 1454 1455<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> 1456<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Heisenberg meets William Blake: The danger of science’s “single vision” The need for poetic science.</p> 1457</blockquote> 1458 1459 1460 1461<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And finally, I only interjected one small comment to Ben Taylor about this LinkedIn post on Karl Friston. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7454854349576482816/">The LinkedIn post</a>. Hat tip to Daniel Friedman (mentioned in my previous post) for commenting / sharing. The post is a defence against <strong>a critique of Friston’s Free Energy Principle</strong> which matters to me a great deal:</p> 1462 1463 1464 1465<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> 1466<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ben commented (quoting an effective summary) ‘high entropy states are most effectively achieved by the involvement of low entropy/negentropic agents’</p> 1467</blockquote> 1468 1469 1470 1471<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> 1472<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I replied “That’s certainly been my take for a decade or two.” ie the creation / evolution of intelligent life – localised low or neg-entropy –
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