» Final post #emergence
16/02/19 21:02 from PsychoLover
I don’t really know where to start writing my final post, so I’ll start by saying that I enjoyed attending this course and that I don’t regret making this choice. Indeed, at the university in France, I am used to attend...
» Systems theory as a way to grasp our World’s Chaos
08/02/19 16:06 from systems theory, psychology and social media
The world we live in is so complex that it often occurs as a great chaos when we try to understand how it works. In a previous reflection I compared system’s with the human body, where if you look on how the specific parts of the b...
» A fairy tale #emergence
05/02/19 09:55 from My experience with systems theory, Psychology and Social Media
Hello and Haudi! Let me introduce myself. My name is Maria Technical. I am 4 years old and love to speak to humans. I was born in Silicon Valley. I have a lot of friends over there. My best friend is called Liz, she is much older than me...
» Essay#emergence
31/01/19 16:29 from Blog
During this semester we addressed several interesting themes related to the world around us and their consequences and I would like to discuss one that particularly inspired me for this final essay: technology and artificial intelligence...
» Final essay #Emergence
25/01/19 17:09 from Rec12
During the past semester, we have talked about several subjects and while some of them seemed out of place in the beginning, I quickly realised, when i took a step back and thought about the content of this class, that they were all impo...
» Final post #emergence
24/01/19 16:44 from My blog
During this semester, I experienced a new learning method. This way of learning was based on the interaction between students and the teacher and included several ways of interacting: face-to-face or on the blog. During these few months ...
» Post 9 #emergence
24/01/19 15:00 from My blog
For me, this last session was rich in emotion. Indeed, I would say that the games made during this session were quite challenging because as you noticed I was quite stressed. However, I think it was a good idea to make this game because ...
» The last mosaïc #emergence
22/01/19 16:20 from Systems Theory – My thougths
A week ago we had our last Systems Theory course. The lesson was even more based on emotions, and on communication. We chose a card and linked it with our inner feelings, and then drew or wrote how we felt about the course. We were all q...
» FINAL ESSAY SYSTEMS THEORY, MASS MEDIA AND PSYCHOLOGY.
21/01/19 15:58 from Breave New World
“The future of teaching” A school without books seemed (and still is seeing) as an utopia. If we are told now that you can achieve great results in kid’s education without having to follow texts books we, probably, would think tha...
» MOVIE REVIEW: ‘MINDWALK’ (1990)
21/01/19 15:58 from Breave New World
The movie is set in the coast of France, and is based on the dialogues of three archetypal characters. During their conversations, we can see approaches to topics seen in class. We can see global warming, deforestation, pollution and pro...
» Last class and final thoughts about the course #Emergence
19/01/19 21:23 from Rec12
Since i wasn’t there last time because of a sinusite, i’d like to use this post to talk about my thoughts about the whole class and not just the past week. I feel like, in the beginning, I was quite disappointed. Indeed, the course wasn’...
» About last course #emergence
19/01/19 20:49 from Blog
During the last course, we had an original exchange about our feelings about these courses and even in general. It was an opportunity to learn a little more about others, especially when we had to choose a card that inspired us and say w...
» Post 8 #emergence
14/01/19 20:53 from My blog
Who has never said that sentence: “I would so much like to go back”. It would be so simple but unfortunately some things in life are irreversible. That was the subject of last class: entropy. A rather complex subject I must a...
» Entropy #emergence
14/01/19 16:35 from PsychoLover
Entropy, as I understand it, is a concept characterized by the notion of irreversibility. For example, the fact of not being able to change processes that are already done. Entropy also applies to time: you can’t go back to the pas...
» Time.. #emergence
12/01/19 17:38 from My experience with systems theory, Psychology and Social Media
Times flew so fast. Now I am sitting here and writing my last weekly Blog post. I cannot go back to our first lesson by time machine. It is because, time never flows backwards. You cannot change, what happened in past. There is no disti...
» Entropy #Emergence
09/01/19 23:40 from Blog
We have seen that entropy is one of the great principles of thermodynamics. The second principle to be precise. It is used to determine whether a chemical reaction is irreversible or not. Let’s take a glass filled with water as an ...
» why? #emergence
09/01/19 21:33 from my time in Panteion
I always wonder to myself why things happen. Most of the times I don’t rich any conclusion, other times I try to be logical and set my mind as a physician who looks at the process of the events, sometimes I like to be a “cognitive saver...
» The whole colourful Mosaic – Getting lost in a System by an Odyssey of Discussion #emergence
08/01/19 18:23 from What is a man?
For my final assignment, I want to discuss the terms of (technological) singularity and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have chosen these terms, because for me personally, they were very interesting and thought-provoking. As we have lear...
» The big question #emergence
08/01/19 16:18 from Systems Theory – My thougths
Today we talked mainly about Time. We learned that time does not only originate from our human perspective and can actually be measured in terms of levels of entropy. We learned that the world probably emerged from a level of very low en...
» Mindwalk – dated but interesting #emergence
08/01/19 09:53 from Systems Theory – My thougths
I did not really enjoy the movie Mindwalk. I thought its age really caught on with it and the way it was trying to get its message across was quite pretentious. But that does not mean I thought it was useless. I think there were actually...
» Evolution, an on-going conversation #Emergence
07/01/19 23:24 from Rec12
The movie “Mindwalk” is a conversation between 3 characters, Sonia, a physicist, Jack, a politician and Tom, a poet. One part that really struck me, was when Sonia was saying that evolution is an on-going conversation. We can’t re...
» Movie „Mindwalk“ #emergence
07/01/19 16:32 from My experience with systems theory, Psychology and Social Media
First of all, I needed much time to get the movie. It seemed to me complicated and hard to understand. On the one hand maybe, because of the reason, it is an old movie or my English is too bad or on the other hand it is a philosophic mov...
» Reflexion ‘Mindwalk’ #emergence
21/12/18 10:16 from What is a man?
Especially at the end of the movie, where the characters got more and more specific with their opinions, I found it really interesting to follow the conversation and the arguments of every single person. For me personally, each of them h...
» Equilibrium vs chaos #Emergence
17/12/18 23:28 from Rec12
In the last class, we talked about a few things, but the part about chaos and equilibrium was what interested me the most. We said that, in order to evolve, we have to be in chaos and lose what we thought was normal. Thinking back, it ma...
» AAA BALANCE #emergence
17/12/18 07:36 from my time in Panteion
Probably one aspect that humans are always searching for is balance. How many times we try to be patient “counting until 30” or we just try to control ourselves to don’t explode in certain circumstances? Balance is something important in...
» Schools without text books. #emergence
14/12/18 08:37 from Breave New World
Humans cannot survive wothout relating. We are designed for group living. But then, why we are thought in individualistics learnings? We are social animals afer all! In the previous lesson we discuss the current educational system in sho...
» order out of chaos #emergence
11/12/18 17:54 from What is a man?
In todays class we have discussed if it is better to be near or far away from equilibrium and we came to the conclusion, that an order can be built out of chaos and that evolution is one of these phenomena. Crisis after crisis is develop...
» Artificial intelligence #emergence
11/12/18 00:09 from Blog
In the last course, artificial intelligence was discussed in particular in the context of therapy. Indeed, there were several videos such as that of patients with Alzheimer’s disease who found comfort in caring for fake robotic dog...
» google generation #emergence
10/12/18 09:55 from my time in Panteion
During the last class we went through our generation topic: the new God: Google. In the last decades technologies are evolving really quickly making big changes in our daily life. Our moments now are deliberately shared on app where in o...
» Comfort Through Artificial Intelligence #emergence
10/12/18 07:53 from systems theory, psychology and social media
I know a lot of people referred to Black mirror in their previous reflections and I couldn’t help but last lesson also reminded me of an episode of that series. It’s about a woman that loses her husband suddenly, she can’t ha...
» Post 7 #emergence
10/12/18 00:32 from My blog
The last course challenged many things in relation to my vision of the future. Indeed, I already knew that technologies and artificial intelligence were taking up more and more space in our society (for example, cashiers in supermarkets ...
» Talking to Go(d)ogle #emergence
07/12/18 19:45 from Systems Theory – My thougths
A couple of sentences, words, ideas… really touched me in those slides. “Alcohol yellow eyes skin red head shaking how long left”. The sadness of this google request is almost too much for me to handle. I cannot help bu...
» A fair world. #emergence
07/12/18 10:08 from Breave New World
The Just-world hypothesis claims that we have a tendency to attribute consequences of people’s actions and that the world has its own justice. In oher words: the just-world is a cognitive bias in what a person’s actions are e...
» about a robot dog #emergence
06/12/18 16:22 from What is a man?
When I was a child, I had a “robot dog”. It was not really a robot. It was more a mixture of plastic and cables in a fluffy case shaped like a dog. It was able to bark, pi and walk. This was because my mother made the decision that a rea...
» „Big brother is watching you“ – But who is big brother? #emergence
05/12/18 19:45 from My experience with systems theory, Psychology and Social Media
Artificial Intelligence is changing our present system. AI is changing our thinking. AI is changing ourselves. AI is changing everything, and we are also changing AI. Foucault interpreted the Panopticon in way of power and force as a mec...
» The transhumanist era #emergence
03/12/18 01:52 from Blog
Compared to the previous course on artificial intelligence and all other kinds of technological advances, I felt quite mixed on the subject. It is true that technological progress would allow us all to make our daily lives easier, even t...
» Post 6 #emergence
03/12/18 00:52 from My blog
First of all, I wanted to say that this last course really interested me and that I am really passionate about everything that is Technology and its evolution. Indeed, to tell me that we Humans can invent something more intelligent than ...
» fast is better #emergence
02/12/18 18:42 from my time in Panteion
We’re living in an era of acceleration where “more and fast is better”. In the 1945 there was the developments of the first computer, big as an office; now we have touch smartphones able to connect people from the opposite side of the w...
» Artificial Intelligence – Blessing or Curse ? #emergence
29/11/18 17:19 from systems theory, psychology and social media
We are living in an era of acceleration, which means that technologies, scientific innovations and productivity in general increases very fast. The term “technological singularity” is mostly understood as the time where machines with art...
» Artificial Intelligence #emergence
29/11/18 15:51 from PsychoLover
Whenever I think about artificial intelligence, I automatically think about the impact that it could have on humanity, and technological singularity sums up these thoughts that I have. I’ve always thought that if we were able to create a...
» The Black Mirror. #emergence
29/11/18 08:14 from Breave New World
Technology has made the world evolve, has provided us safety and improved the quality of life. But do we have total control about it? What if technology can be used as a weapon agains us? What happens if technology dictate our future? Or...
» Is this the way of Intelligence? #emergence
28/11/18 15:51 from My experience with systems theory, Psychology and Social Media
The first electronical computer was found in 1945, used in the war. 76 years later Watson was presented. An Artificial Intelligence software created for being cleverer then humans or help humans in every day life or for what exactly? I l...
» Artifical intelligence, Watson and the dangers of technological growth; where will this lead us ? #Emergence
28/11/18 01:47 from Rec12
This week, during class, we mentioned something about positive feedbacks and artificial intelligence that made me think a lot. We said that, in a linear causality, if I create something smarter than me, that thing can create something sm...
» Outsourcing our intelligence and pessimism #emergence
27/11/18 22:37 from Systems Theory – My thougths
I love the concept of the outsourcing of our intelligence. I never thought about it, but all our tools are basically the externalisation of our inner resources, thus making us more powerful. Each human today has the potential of being sm...
» technological singularity #emergence
27/11/18 18:42 from What is a man?
30 or 40 years ago, people would have called you crazy if you would have told them that one day it is totally normal to people to post their everyday life online in social media networks. But that’s how it is now! And imagine what will b...
» About complex causality and sensitive dependence on initial conditions #emergence
27/11/18 11:55 from Systems Theory – My thougths
I wasn’t able to come to the last week’s course, so I read the powerpoint presentation and I was very intrigued by the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions. I immediately applied it to the human life trajecto...
» Causality, linear and complex #Emergence
26/11/18 22:24 from Rec12
I wasn’t there last time and I had some troubles understanding the subject with the slides and my classmates’ posts as I think the topic seemed difficult for everyone. I still want to try and write my post, I’ll do my best to explain wha...
» Post 5 #emergence
26/11/18 01:41 from My blog
During the last course, the subjects studied made me think a lot about the theme of the bifurcation, the pendulum, the system of causality and effect, and the positive and negative feedback loops. At the end of this course, despite the f...
» life as a spiral #emergence
25/11/18 15:04 from my time in Panteion
Causality is always been something fascinating to my eyes. If we think about everyday life, how many things happen that we don’t even realize because is just something we consider “normal”? but what happen if we consider these moments as...
» The Difference between a macro- and a micro-perspective #emergence
23/11/18 15:12 from systems theory, psychology and social media
Today I learned that a system can appear as chaotic if you observe it from a micro-perspective. But if you “zoom out” and observe from a macro-perspective you’ll realize that there is a pattern. I think one could compare it to the human ...