The International Society for System Science is holding its annual conference in July. It will focus on how to tackle the global problems of climate change, sea level rise and soil loss all due to human population growth. The group has been building up by having speakers come in who understand various areas of what they call 'the global problem' But it's going to take a team of people and some modeling tools to be able to do that according to Dr Andrew Keen.
George Mobus is Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, Tacoma. His broad academic background saw him conduct research on artificial intelligence, cybernetics and systems science.
George joins me to discuss how systems science is failing to grasp the polycrisis—that the field has been split into silos, leaving most systems scientists without the tools to model the complexity of the emergency we face.
He also explains the neurological limits of individual human wisdom, suggesting the agricultural revolution affected our capacity for abstract thinking, before revealing how humans can work past those limits—collectively.
Planet: Critical investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.
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