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SysCoI reading
Reading discovered through the Systems Community of Inquiry. Each resource keeps its original author, source links, and the public post that brought it here. Existing atlas records are linked where the same work is already represented.
15 public posts, 15 resources, and 1 existing resource routes reconciled since 24 October 2026.
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Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francis Heylighen
Brendan Graham Dempsey talks with cyberneticist Francis Heylighen in a 68-minute Metamodern Meaning episode published on 7 November 2026. Heylighen proposes a 'Third Story' of the universe based on self-organising evolution rather than a solely mechanistic account. The discussion ranges across metasystem transitions, consciousness, artificial intelligence, meaning, and the suggested relationship between increasing complexity and value. These are the speakers' proposed interpretations, not established scientific consensus. The SysCoI post groups the episode with Heylighen's separate Substack as companion reading.
Other links in the post: www.youtube.com/watch · francisheylighen.substack.com
Description based on Episode description and chapter timestamps 1:20–1:08:08; 7 November 2026 publication (checked 2026-11-12); Public grouped SysCoI post: episode link and companion Heylighen Substack (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-12 by Benjamin P Taylor
SCiO UK
SCiO UK holds a free virtual open meeting on Monday 16 November 2026, 18:30–21:00 GMT, open to members and other interested practitioners. The programme includes talks by Christian Moore-Anderson on teaching, cybernetics and enactivism, and Sean Manion on the language and history of artificial intelligence. SCiO describes these meetings as opportunities to develop systems practice, exchange experience, and make connections. The event is online via Zoom, with booking from the organiser's page.
Description based on Date & Time; Pricing Info; Access; About this Event; Event Resources (speakers) (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-12 by Benjamin P Taylor
Jon Awbrey
Jon Awbrey's public SysCoI overview introduces 'Riffs' and 'Rotes' as directed and undirected graph representations of doubly recursive prime factorizations. Using the integer 2025 as an example, the post describes expansion by prime indices to generate a distinctive combinatorial structure. Its explanation says it was adapted from a Google AI Overview; the underlying OEIS wiki returned HTTP 403 in this source check, so the mathematical exposition has not been independently checked here.
Other links in the post: mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/113765962017439989 · www.researchgate.net/post/Riffs_and_Rotes_Overview
Description based on Jon Awbrey's post, Core Concept, example 2025, Resources and attribution note (checked 2026-11-12); Linked primary resource; HTTP 403 during direct check (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-11 by Jon Awbrey
Arseny Krasikov
Arseny Krasikov's VSM Renderer is an open-source TypeScript and Konva library for displaying interactive Viable System Model diagrams. The repository documents nested recursive systems, drill-down navigation, individually selectable channels, zoom and pan, and click events. Its README links a live demonstration and installation instructions. This library is related to, but distinct from, Krasikov and Mark Lambertz's VSM7 application and its earlier SysCoI walkthrough.
Other links in the post: captador.github.io/vsm-renderer
Description based on README: overview; demo; features; installation; EUPL-1.2 licence (checked 2026-11-12); Published post distinguishing the renderer from VSM7 (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-11 by Benjamin P Taylor
Mark Lambertz, Allenna Leonard (original storyline)
Mark Lambertz's 'Pasta Lasta' is a facilitated restaurant simulation for exploring Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. Participants organise a fictional hospitality business, respond to an eventful week, and reflect using a VSM laid out on the floor. It foregrounds operational autonomy, coordination, recursion, and decisions under changing conditions. The public guide provides a facilitator handout and alternative session lengths. Lambertz explicitly credits Allenna Leonard for the original storyline.
Other links in the post: intelligente-organisationen.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Pasta_Lasta_Facilitator_Handout.pdf
Description based on Learning the VSM by Running a Restaurant; credits; facilitator handout; session plan (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-11 by Benjamin P Taylor
Gabriel Burstein, Constantin Virgil Negoita
This deliberately grouped SysCoI resource covers two linked works by Gabriel Burstein and Constantin Virgil Negoita. The 2011 Kybernetes paper proposes a Kabbalah Tree of Life-based cybernetic framework for cognition, emotion, and action using feedback, hierarchical control, multi-valued logic, and category theory. Their 2014 chapter develops the proposal for knowledge-based behavioural economics and finance, drawing on system dynamics, emotional intelligence, and tacit knowledge. These are the authors' theoretical propositions, not independent proof that the framework explains or resolves societal problems.
Other links in the post: www.researchgate.net/publication/220626476_Foundations_of_a_postmodern_cybernetics_based_on_Kabbalah · www.researchgate.net/publication/286018391_A_Kabbalah_System_Theory_Modeling_Framework_for_Knowledge_Based_Behavioral_Economics_and_Finance · doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01285-8_2
Description based on October 2011 Kybernetes article title, authors, abstract and DOI (checked 2026-11-12); November 2014 book chapter title, authors, abstract and DOI (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-11 by Benjamin P Taylor
Systems Thinking Ontario, Herman Piʻikea Clark, Roberto Pires, David Ing
Systems Thinking Ontario's 148th hybrid meeting, on 18 November 2026 at 18:30 EST / 23:30 GMT, explores Indigenous knowledge and pluriversal design. Herman Piʻikea Clark discusses Makawalu and cognitive justice; Roberto Pires considers participatory futures and plural knowledge systems; David Ing moderates. Attend at OCAD University in Toronto or online via Microsoft Teams; registration is through Guild. The listed public sources do not state a price. The event programme was verified on the organiser's wiki; the Guild registration page could not be read directly in this check.
Other links in the post: guild.host/events/systems-of-traditional-si2lqm
Description based on 148th meeting; speakers; hybrid venue; date; registration link (checked 2026-11-12); Published post: GMT/EST start and price not stated (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-10 by Benjamin P Taylor
John A Challoner
John A Challoner's November 2026 version-eight paper examines how physical interactions, transfers, and constraints make entities participants in systems, maintain their organisation, and contribute to assembly, change, and disassembly. His free General Systems Theory course lists related modules 92–106, building on earlier work on foundational causality. The paper and course are evolving resources; this entry links the current paper, collection, course, and earlier coverage without treating the author's theoretical claims as established results.
Other links in the post: rational-understanding.com/efgst · rational-understanding.com/gst-course
Description based on EFGST paper collection, Latest Addition: Assembly and Disassembly as Causal Processes Vers8 (checked 2026-11-12); Published post: paper, course modules 92–106, and earlier coverage (checked 2026-11-12).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-10 by Benjamin P Taylor
Benjamin P Taylor
Benjamin P Taylor's free, illustrated 32-page working draft introduces systems change to younger readers through a fictional student whose unreliable bus leads to an attendance warning. The associated Chosen Path article explains why competing definitions of the problem, institutional rules, authority, power, and different people's experiences matter. Taylor distinguishes the wider systems, cybernetics, and complexity traditions, questions claims that deeper interventions necessarily last longer, and cautions that changing the account of a situation does not itself change timetables, funding, or rules. The guide includes diagrams, a worksheet, references, and a worked example whose results are mixed. Taylor explicitly invites criticism and practical testing.
Other links in the post: chosen-path.org/2026/11/10/ive-written-making-things-change-a-free-illustrated-32-page-guide-to-systems-change-for-young-people · www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_making-things-change-ugcPost-7525816816741511168-k3OO
Description based on Article paragraphs on bus/attendance example, conceptual distinctions, mixed outcomes, and working-draft status; downloadable PDF link (checked 2026-11-10); Published SysCoI embed of Chosen Path post 5730 (checked 2026-11-10).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-10 by Benjamin P Taylor
Yu Zheng, Jingtao Ding, Depeng Jin, Jianxi Gao, Yong Li
Yu Zheng and colleagues report a method that turns learned network-attack strategies into interpretable formulas for assessing resilience. Their account considers both network structure and the dynamical states imposed on it, including the association between node degree and state. The method aims to identify components whose removal can cause a network to fail. The Nature Communications abstract is the basis of this description: the reported performance improvements belong to the authors’ evaluated settings, and do not establish a general measure for every social or organisational use of resilience.
Description based on Abstract; authors; early-access publication statement, 19 October 2026 (checked 2026-11-07).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-02 by Benjamin P Taylor
Derek Smith, Second Law Studio
Second Law Studio’s first research paper, The Right to Stop, examines Lean practices through the authority to raise evidence and change the operating model. The publisher describes unresolved evidence as epistemic work-in-progress, asking how it is noticed, admitted, assigned, and resolved when correction capacity is overloaded. It proposes operational corrigibility as a capacity for repeated correction. This description is based on the studio’s own public announcement; the paper’s full argument was not independently assessed here.
Description based on Publisher announcement: Published: The Right to Stop (checked 2026-11-07); Author’s publication announcement (checked 2026-11-07).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-02 by Benjamin P Taylor
Bret Victor
Bret Victor’s October 2011 interactive essay uses a simple car-control simulation to show how designers can move between a particular run and broader views of possible behaviour. Time and steering parameters can be varied; trajectories expose patterns that are difficult to see during real-time playback. Moving back to a concrete case tests what an abstract picture hides. The essay offers a practical approach to exploring a system when theory is insufficient to predict the consequences of design decisions.
Description based on A Systematic Approach to Interactive Visualization; Controlling Time; Abstracting Over Time; Stepping Back Down (checked 2026-11-07).
SysCoI post, 2026-11-02 by Benjamin P Taylor
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham reports experiments in which active mechanical units settle into coordinated oscillation through local, non-reciprocal interactions. Initially short waves grow in scale, period, and amplitude until the material moves together. The report describes both a honeycomb assembly and an elastic ring, and calls the process wave coarsening. It provides a concrete physical example of coordination arising from designed interactions. Proposed uses in robotics remain prospective applications of the reported experiments.
Description based on 14 October 2026 report; non-reciprocal interactions; 2D honeycomb material (checked 2026-11-07).
SysCoI post, 2026-10-28 by Benjamin P Taylor
The public SysCoI post names this resource ‘An Introduction to Cybernetics – TextbookLudos’ and links to the site below. The destination returned HTTP 403 when checked on 7 November 2026. Its contents, authorship, features, and coverage could not be verified; the discovery link is retained here without a descriptive account of unseen material.
Description based on Public post title and outbound URL; destination retrieval returned HTTP 403 (checked 2026-11-07).
SysCoI post, 2026-10-28 by Benjamin P Taylor
Richard S O’Rourke
Richard S O’Rourke sets out a research programme on sustainability that brings energy and material flows into conversation with cybernetic regulation and political economy. His homepage distinguishes thermodynamic entropy from information entropy, and follows a route through Lotka, Ashby, and economic theory. Its research list separates working drafts from published work. This is the same author’s research hub already represented in the atlas; the later SysCoI post also supplies his Substack writing route.
Other links in the post: rsorourke.substack.com
Description based on The foundations; The programme; Research & writing (checked 2026-11-07).
SysCoI post, 2026-10-27 by Benjamin P Taylor
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