Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday June 20, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07 * ------------------------------ Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts Piet Holbrouck <http://www.nonzeroratio.org> (ECCO) Abstract: In an ECCO seminar in 2008 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/86>, the Non Zero Ratio toolbox was presented as an attempt to a generic problem-solving toolbox, based largely on Goldratt's Thinking Processes that facilitate the mapping and scrutinizing of the cause-and-effect logic of problems. In the current seminar, two limitations of this process are explored. It will be shown through real-life examples how these limitations prevent effective paradigm change and thus dramatically limit innovation: (1) the limitation of logic thinking itself due to psychological dynamics (groupthink, anchoring, confirmation bias, availability bias) and (2) the limitation caused by accidental segmentation. Understanding and overcoming both limitations is essential for an effective global brain. The limitation due to accidental segmentation is explored through real-life cases (mobility, languages) that allow to understand how segmentation prevents paradigm changing, but also how segmentation, when properly understood, points the way to the required paradigm change. The limitation in logic and how to overcome is demonstrated through a white paper (ref below) that exposes a potential paradigm change in health care in the Kuhnian sense: the claim that preventive health care campaigns cause additional victims instead of preventing, as an effect of the more general claim that health risks are not at all fixed but variable as dependent on the related communication because of the placebo-effect (a fact that is scientifically known as true for drugs but somehow denied to be true in preventive health care without any logic or scientific basis). This claim goes counter the current paradigm held by the majority of the science community, that health risks are fixed, i.e. not dependent on the associated communication, but the claim is logically more consistent and clarifies several scientific facts that have been known to be anomalous or unexpected. The release of this white paper and how it will be received can be considered as an experiment in paradigm changing. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) *A World of Views: society and social governance on the brink of the Singularity * See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
