Alen Puaca

SURFACE [trivial, lame, insignificant, banal, trendy] vs PURPOSE [primal, essential, insightful, fundamental, whole]… and back

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“At some point, especially in the upcoming era of AI, designers will have to operate at much deeper levels, beyond the aesthetic and technical skills that AI will soon match or surpass.” — Alen Puaca https://t.co/YoLf4LaldS

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Breakthrough scientist every 21st century designer should follow.

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Are you out of reading material? Our lab has you covered. As promised, here are some new preprints:

Ingressions from the Platonic space as influences beyond genetics and environment; not the weirdest thing I plan to write, but perhaps the farthest out so far: https://t.co/liBVwg4J4f

Conceptualizing goal-directedness in biology, with David Resnik (https://t.co/weqjmQLmqT) @DavidResnik1962 :
https://t.co/EXS9jfXY0D

How do biological systems at all levels hack each other in health and disease? with Evgenia V. Shmeleva @ZhShmel (https://t.co/gwGVFpUfHU):
"The Hijacker's Guide to biological systems: Manipulation by self‐defecting or foreign agents"
https://t.co/3aEeTc1MW5

A new theory of aging (and simulation data) based on loss of goal-directedness by the cellular collective intelligence (not a noise/damage-based cause):
"Aging as a loss of goal-directedness: an evolutionary simulation and analysis unifying regeneration with anatomical rejuvenation" with @BeneHartl @LPiolopez
https://t.co/ppqXyvgs1E

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“‘To design is to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.’ — Herbert Simon”  https://t.co/pdsA5vHi2H

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@DrJohnVervaeke Would the simplest way to describe perspectival knowing be with "to a man with a hammer everything is a nail"?

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

At the foundation of your experience lie two fundamental modes of knowing that shape how you engage with reality.

The first one is Participatory Knowing.

This is how you "know" through your deep engagement with the world.

It’s not just thinking—it’s knowing by being an integral part of the patterns and principles of reality.

A skilled musician (for instance) does not merely know music theoretically but participates in it—embodying its flow.

The second mode of knowing is…

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“Double Helix Design Patterns is not a method but observational framework of how decision making agents in reality function. Double Helix represent in a way a tightly coupled agent and its environment, connected by care for mutual existence.” https://t.co/72u8SpnKHm

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“One can not assume identity is isolation. Assuming one’s identity needs to satisfy two conditions: that a person identifies as such, but also that their social context recognize and acknowledge that identity.” https://t.co/uQnHIQ8gLT

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“Biologist Stuart Kauffman’s Lessons for 21st Century Designers” by Alen Puaca https://t.co/lkkEpIZQNN

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“Curiosity in understanding and using these cognitive fractal patterns Levin talks about should hopefully be one of the first steps in maturation of the 21st century designers.” — Alen Puaca https://t.co/LnMlhjMd1m

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@elonmuskADO 😂

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@PageauJonathan Mnogaja ljeta!

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"By describing as superhuman a thing that is entirely insensible and unthinking, we implicitly erase or devalue the concept of a https://t.co/5XRIWWu79K via @NoemaMag

[☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽ @ThouArtThat]

John Vervaeke and Evan Thompson: “The Blind Spot in Perception: Cognitive Science, Asian Philosophy, and Mystical Insight” @evantthompson @vervaeke_john

https://t.co/zQFsLBRmak

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

In journalism, names and dates are factual; the rest is fictional.
In literature, names and dates are fictional; the rest is factual.

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At Any Given Moment in a Process https://t.co/jpNI6HPE4e

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“Use the WWHTBT tool to ask what else needs to be true. Focus on the strategic lever you propose pulling and channel Toyota’s Five Why technique to keep asking successive WWHTBT questions. Ask yourself what five successive things would…” — Roger Martin https://t.co/2BqAA68VtL

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“Nick Stanhope goes on to suggest three forms of shared infrastructure which can help to create the conditions for genuine collaboration — shared views of what is going on; shared data, tech and design infrastructure and…” — @DarkMatter_Labs https://t.co/HRMI77dVSV