Russell L Ackoff From Mechanistic to Systemic thinking
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Russell Ackoff's talk presented at the Systems Thinking in Action conference - November 1993.
In this fascinating lecture, Ackoff states that we're in the early stages of a change of age - a period in which our worldview is transforming from one theory of reality to another.
What happens to any age is the appearance of dilemmas - problems that challenge the validity of the current worldview and cannot be solved within it. Such was the case during the Middle Ages - hence, the Renaissance. In our case, we are experiencing a shift from the Machine Age to the Systems Age.
The Machine Age was characterized by the belief in complete understandability of the universe, analysis as a method of inquiry, and cause and effect as a sufficient relationship to explain all.
The dilemma that disrupted such beliefs was systems thinking. The Machine Age began to die, Ackoff states, when we gave up the principle of understandability. Gradually, it's become accepted that there can be no complete understanding of the universe because nothing can be understood independently of its environment - all is environmentally relative. It began to be acknowledged that while analysis produces knowledge, it is synthesis that produces understanding. Furthermore, the Systems Age recognizes that cause and effect is just one way of looking at reality - there are an infinite number of ways.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:04 Concept of reality (world view) and definition of an Age
2:46 World view 1 - Renaissance
6:57 Elements leading to machine-age thinking
17:06 Summary - 3 doctrines of the machine age, Isaac Newton
19:35 Origin of the industrial revolution and some characteristics
25:34 Dilemmas that started to challenge the machine age worldview - Наука та технологія
Ackoff was a true philosopher at heart who changed how world is viewed !
One of the most brilliant talks on systems thinking that I have come across. thank you for sharing
01:04 - Concept of reality (world view) and definition of an Age
02:46 - World view 1 - Renaissance
06:57 - Elements leading to machine age thinking
17:06 - Summary - 3 doctrines of machine age, Isaac Newton
19:35 - Origin of industrial revolution and some characteristics
25:34 - Dilemmas that started to challenge the machine age world view
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1:13:11 - End (there's 24 min of blank at the end)
Thank you, Renato, I will add markers to the video and delete the last 24 minutes.
The Einstein of problem solving. My friend and mentor for ten years.
Do you have more lectures for him? We desperately need more of his wisdom
What book of him do you suggest to read in order to synthesize this lecture. Thanks
Lucky and Fortunate You
@@robynmaden1481 I’m looking too! We should make a playlist
@@mounirkebir4389 Thanks for asking. If you're still looking, his books "Idealized Design" and "On Purposeful Systems" are where I suggest you start. He also co-wrote a book on education: "Turning Learning Right Side Up"
This is a VERY good lecture. His ability SYNTHESIS is profound.
I had no idea what i was getting into, and i'm loving it.
Got to hear every single of his talks many times.
Superb. Clarifying. Distilling. Relevant.
This is like finding buried treasure. Outstanding lecture x
Such an amazing lecture. So many interesting concepts talked so lucidly --- changes your point of view
Very insightful lecture. Must listen 👂 for all involved in large system design and sustenance.
Shook me to the bone.. by his genius ! Wow !
What an amazing talk.
This is one excellent teacher!
Excellent talk, shows how to mesh ideas into a story to make it compelling.
Thanks for sharing. ❤
Wow! Ultimate conceptual clarity for understanding the human made possibilities to live with complexity of muscle and mind usage.
Thanks for posting this friend
I wish this channel posted more videos.
Anyone who likes this should read about spiral dynamics
Yeah Spiral dynamics , Integral theory is a must
Ackoff is brilliant with his powerful explanations, such as:
What happens to any age is the appearance of dilemmas - problems that challenge the validity of the current world view and cannot be solved within it. Such was the case during the Middle Ages - hence, the Renaissance. In our case, we are experiencing a shift from the Machine Age to the Systems Age.
Check out Spiral Dynamics
Well put😊
Absolutely brilliant
Excellent!!!!!!
I m damn sure there must be several other videos on systems thinking, put them all on your channel.
2:00 shared perspective more fragmented than ever in this age , with advent of information sharing . Perspective comes from the information you encounter. Before you would encounter way more limited range of information , so less range of perspective
But on the upside gives more transformation potential
Interestingly, the synergistic properties of system parts is by definition beyond the analysis of it parts.
Like a Gestalt
GENIO
27:06 - "Man is like a fly riding on the trunk of an elephant who thinks he's steering it. The elephant doesn't mind and it makes the ride more interesting." 🤣
Continue from 37:50
Interesting how Einstein is not mentioned... Ackoff probably imagined what the MIND of Cybernetics would be... but probably never thought of internet and google..
The Internet is again a connection of this mind
1:12:49 the AI era is based on this
Thought about this too
31:30 Now we know that the appendix serves a purpose: It provides a repository of gut bacteria, so that if during illness or poisoning the rest of the gut microflora is disrupted, then they can be replaced. So I guess it becomes a part of the whole... and somebody needs to come up with a new name.
Systems Thinking:- "STSP"
Peter Checkland mentions you often:
why not you him ?
46:35 1 Cor 12:12-27
Einstein rotates in his grave anxiously
39:28
Minutes 1:11:38 he talks about a female philosopher and says:
“A remarkable lady, remarkable because firstly she was a lady, secondly because she was a professor of philosophy!”
This sounds deeply misogynistic to me!
That is, he does not expect a woman to be a philosopher.
I interpret it as him saying being a lady is a remarkable thing in itself, so the complete opposite of that.
It is remarkable, if you've ever heard him describe the very school/teaching system 😂
It's all a club, especially in the "professor" echelon. It's pretty radical she would've been in the club... definitely markable atleast
The boss is a man with power, not God.
Aha.....God creation contextualization and view of world
An interesting reductionist talk against reductionism.
How is it reductionist?
Ackoff is so over-rated. Such dumb BS!
How easily people accept his sarcastic view of human progress is sad and hilarious at the same time.