Complexity and Reflexivity
Papers presented at the
Washington Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC, March 31-April 1, 2012
UPDATED 24 Feb to post all links
Conceptions of Complexity and Implications for Economics
Stuart Umpleby, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Experiments in Reflexive Inquiry
Kent Myers, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Conceptual Difficulties and Pragmatic Responses to Research & Development Contracting
Steven C. Stryker, Professional Consultant and Trainer, Stryker Associates
Reflexivity as Integrity: Toward Earth/Life 4.0
Robert David Steele, Earth Intelligence Network
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Advances in Living Systems Science
James R. Simms
New Archimedean Point for Intelligence and Foreign Policy – Reflexivity, Complexity & Culture (Paper)
Lowell F. Christy Jr., Cultural Strategies Institute
Representations vs. Compressions
Michael Lissack
Peculiarities of Public and Entrepreneurial Attitudes in Post Soviet Georgia
Ia Natsvlishvili
Forthcoming Conference Information
See Also:
2012 Reflexivity = Integrity: Toward Earth/Life 4.0
2011 Thinking About Revolution in the USA and Elsewhere (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
American Uprising or American Up-Wising?
Autarky is Dead–Dependency is Good
Berto Jongman: Does Terrorism Work? What Do They Want? + Meta-RECAP
Bojan Radej: Movement 99%, Self-Organizing Complex Bodies
Bojan Radej: Primitive Politics Fail Social Complexity
Chris Pallaris: 12 Aspects of Creative Thinking Not Taught in Schools
Chuck Spinney: Is Global Warming Religion or Science?
Cofer Black: Hackers Evil, Pay Me… + Hackers RECAP
Complex Societies Collapse When Commodity Prices Go UP and Financial Speculation Returns Go DOWN
Connecting the Dots: ALL of Them
DefDog: Seduced by the Cult of Experts
DefDog: Washington’s Integrity Part N to the Nth
Eagle: Call for Internet “Quality Control” aka Quash Dissent
Eagle: Obama’s SOTU “Urinating on Public Intelligence”
Economic Complexity Visualized–A New Mind Tool
Event: 19 Nov Berlin, Interacting Minds–An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Cognition
Future of Multinational Intelligence & Operations
FuturICT Living Earth Simulator; EarthGame / Whole Earth Strategic Analytic Model
George Soros Nails It: Intelligence with Integrity
Homeland Security Indicators: YOU May Be A Terrorist
Howard Rheingold: Cooperation Theory
Howard Rheingold: Infotention Skills + Citizen Intel RECAP
Integrity Emergent: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
John Marke: Complexity Enhanced Risk Insights
John Marke: Complexity, Risk Consultants, & Baloney
John Robb: Four Sources of Trust, Crypto Not Scaling….
John Robb: Hollow States & Crisis of Capitalism
Jon Lebkowsky: Jean Russel on Thrivability
Josh Kilbourn: Chris Hedges on The Real Debate
Journal: 20th Century Clunkers vs 21st Century Slims
Journal: Can’t Sell Complicated to Simpletons
Journal: Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive
Journal: Design Thinking for Government
Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP
Journal: Tom Atlee Comments on Great Transition
Koko: Books on Complexity and Resilience
Mini-Me: Food Giants Push Congress To Name Pizza A Vegetable
Narrative Battle & Public Diplomacy in 21st Century
OpenBTS GSM Simplified — Freeing Humanity
Pierre Levy: New Media Literacies (12 of Them)
Pierre Levy: Open-Science Movement Catches Fire
PROPOSAL: 21st Century Governance – Beyond Participatory Budgeting
Reality Always Bats Last: Personal Political Pathos
Reference: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity
Reference: A Whole New Ball Game–Collective Intelligence in ON
Reference: Citizenship Versus Transpartisanship
Reference: Collapse in early Mesopotamian states–what happened and what didn’t
Reference: Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities
Reference: Engaging Emergence in 824 Words
Reference: Four Letters That Changed Nothing
Reference: GW Seminar on Reflexive Systems
Reference: Infinite Wealth for All
Reference: Our Choice–Changing the Game
Reference: Our Perfect Storm–“synchronous failure”
Reference: Panarchy–Governance in the Network Age
Reflections on Convergence in 2012, Emergence Unknowable
Reform Coalition: “True Cost” Economics & Genuine Progress + True Cost RECAP
Review (Guest): Seeing Like a State–How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Review (Guest): What Technology Wants
Review: A First-Rate Madness – Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Review: Collapse–How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach
Review: Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace
Review: Defense Facts of Life–The Plans/Reality Mismatch
Review: Democracy as Problem Solving – Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe
Review: Ecological Intelligence – The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy
Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee
Review: Evolutionary Dynamics–Exploring the Equations of Life
Review: Global Shift–How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity
Review: Here Comes Everybody–The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Review: Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
Review: How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future
Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
Review: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Review: Making Learning Whole–How Seven Principles of Teaching can Transform Education
Review: Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness
Review: Mobilizing Minds–Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization
Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny
Review: One from Many–VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Review: Out of Control–The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World
Review: Panarchy–Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Review: Planning with Complexity – An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy
Review: Radical Man–The Process of Psycho-Social Development
Review: Reality Is Broken–Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Review: Rebooting the American Dream–11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country
Review: Reflexive Practice–Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World
Review: Shooting the Truth–The Rise of American Political Documentaries
Review: Social Change 2.0–A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World
Review: State of the World 2010–Transforming Cultures–From Consumerism to Sustainability
Review: Strategy–Process, Content, Context–An International Perspective
Review: The Bhagavad Gita–A Walkthrough for Westerners
Review: The Collapse of Complex Societies
Review: The Innovator’s Manifesto – Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth
Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management–Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century
Review: The Philanthropy of George Soros – Building Open Societies
Review: The Philosophy of Sustainable Design
Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Review: Threshold–The Crisis of Western Culture
Review: Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World
Robert Capps: System D – Informal Economy Ignores Government
Robert Steele: Catholic Church Debates Secrecy vs Truth – Something We Should All Be Doing…
Robert Steele: Citizen in Search of Integrity (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP
Robert Steele: The Craft of Intelligence – OLD vs. NEW
Search: Counterintelligence & Capitalism
Search: design thinking and public administratio
Search: global brain human brain + RECAP
Search: holistic cybernetic integral
Search: leadership thinking models
Search: reflections, integrity
Secrecy News Headlines: Government Blinders & Blunders
Seth Godin: Asimov to the Edges–Perceiving Knowledge
Seth Godin: Share Your Confusions
Seven Promises to America–Who Will Do This?
Stuart Umpleby: Papers on Reflexivity, Soros Reviews
The Emergent Open Source Revolution
Theophillis Goodyear: Multi-Layered Bullshit as Fog of Illusion
The Revolution in Analytics–Fraud, Waste, & Abuse
The Rule of Little Groups of Paratroops (LGOP)
Tom Atlee: Movement to Reform Global Understanding
Tom Atlee: Occupation Catalytic Butterfly
Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Venessa Miemis: Beyond Systems Thinking
Venessa Miemis: Reflection – The Concept of Enlightenment
Venessa Miemis: There’s Something Happening Here…[or Not]
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert David STEELE Vivas
Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Dr. Kent C. Myers
Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Dr. Stuart Umpleby
Winslow Wheeler: ONE COLONEL TELLS THE TRUTH – Major Investigation Called For + Meta-RECAP
Worth a Look: Innovation Orientation
Worth a Look: Institute for 21st Century Agoras
Worth a Look: Liars and Outliers – Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (Bruce Schneier)
Worth a Look: Nokia and Information Mapping
Worth a Look: Space Storm Can Fry Power & Water
NOTE: Above is a partial list.
