Systems Intelligence

Systems Intelligence is an effort to combine human sensitivities with engineering thinking that approaches matters with the idea of making things work. Systems Intelligence is multidisciplinary, applicative and philosophical in its orientation. It involves thinking-in-action, tacit, unspoken elements, situational awareness and touch for complex wholes around us. Its emphasis is on interactive participation in systems with feedback and subtle interrelations. It is a form of holistic and instinctual thinking that we believe is vital, indeed fundamental to human nature. Systems Intelligence is a survival asset we have as a species.

By Systems Intelligence we mean intelligent behaviour in the context of complex systems involving interaction and feedback. A subject acting with Systems Intelligence engages successfully and productively with the holistic feedback mechanisms of her environment. She perceives herself as part of a whole, the influence of the whole upon herself as well as her own influence upon the whole. By observing her own interdependence in the feedback intensive environment, she is able to act intelligently.

Systems Intelligence
Discovering a hidden competence in human action and organizational life
Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Esa Saarinen, editors
Helsinki University of Technology
Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports
A88, October 2004

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