Warm Data Lab vie päätöksenteon tietotukea tulevaisuuteen Kompleksisissa järjestelmissä ja niihin liittyvässä yhteiskunnallisessa päätöksenteossa tarvitaan kykyä monien näkökulmien yhtäaikaiseen dialogiin ja kokonaisuuden hahmottamiseen. Erilaisten tiedon muotojen, asiantuntijuuden ja osallisuuden on kohdattava yhä synergisemmin. Nora Bateson, tilaisuuden vetäjä, on lähestynyt tätä kohtaamista ja vuorovaikutusta käsitteellä “Warm Data”. Päivän tarkoituksena on tutkia ja ymmärtää, miten voisimme lisätä edellytyksiä kokonaisvaltaisemmalle päätöksenteolle ja toiminnalle kompleksisessa toimintaympäristössä. Sovellamme Batesonin kehittämää Warm data -lab -menetelmää ja keskustelemme päätöksenteon tietotuen tulevaisuudesta. Pohdimme, miten tartumme lupaaviin lähestymistapoihin ja parannamme edellytyksiä ottaa niitä laajamittaisemmin käyttöön. Mitä on Warm Data? Käsitteellä Warm Data Nora Bateson kuvaa tietoa, joka syntyy tilannekohtaisesti erilaisten näkökulmien ja kontekstien asettuessa läpinäkyvään vuoropuheluun. Voimme saada tietoa ja ymmärrystä siitä, miten asioiden vastavuoroinen kytkeytyneisyys vaikuttaa havaintoihimme, päätöksentekoomme ja toimintaan. Warm Data Lab on työskentelyprosessi, joka mahdollistaa moninäkökulmaisen ja rajoja ylittävän tietämyksen kehittymisen. Toimintatapana se tarjoaa mahdollisuuden lähestyä kompleksisia kysymyksiä luomalla ekosysteemitasoista integroivaa dialogia. (ks. lyhyt video lähestymistavasta). Nora Bateson on International Batesonian Institute’n perustaja. Instituutti tutkii kompleksisiin systeemeihin sisältyviä kytkentöjä, liittyen mm. ympäristöön, talouteen, sosiaaliseen muutoksen, terveyteen, koulutukseen ja taiteeseen. Instituutti kannustaa ja käynnistää erityisesti projekteja, jotka yhdistävät erilaisia konteksteja.

2. Risk and Possibility
"Traditionally, risk is assessed as the product of probability
and damage. But when the damage is beyond quantification,
this process breaks down. With existential risks, learning
from mistakes is not an option, and we cannot necessarily
rely on the institutions, moral norms, or social attitudes
developed from our experience with managing other types of
risk.
What is needed now is an approach to risk management
which is fundamentally different from conventional practice. It
would focus on the high-end, unprecedented​possibilities,
instead of assessing middle-of-the-road​probabilities on the
basis of historic experience.”
--Ian Dunlop and David Spratt May 2019
From the paper: Existential Climate-Related Security Risk

3. Roles

4. And…unrolling.

5. “Warm Data” can be defined as:
Transcontextual information about the
interrelationships that integrate a complex
system.

6. The opposite of complexity is not simplicity
...It is reductionism.

7. The Hydra

8. “Darwin proposed a theory of natural selection and
evolution in which the unit of survival was either the family
line or the species or subspecies or something of the sort.
But today, it is quite obvious that this is not the unit of
survival in the real biological world. The unit of survival is
organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter
experience that the organism which destroys in its
environment destroys itself.” (G. Bateson page 491)
Where is the edge of the “self’”
--?

10. “At present there is no existing science
whose special interest is the combining of
pieces of information. But I shall argue that
the evolutionary process must depend upon
such double increments of information.
Every evolutionary step is an addition of
information to an already existing system.
Because this is so, the combinations,
harmonies, and discords between
successive pieces and layers of information
will present many problems of survival and
determine many directions of change.” –
G.Bateson

11. Criteria Warm Data
1. Observing the observer
2. Multiple description
3. Fluid patterning
4. Paradox, inconsistency and time
5. Holism and Reductionism
6. Cultural responsibility
7. Aesthetic, mood, rhythm.

12. What are the Patterns That Connect?

13. WHY WARM DATA IS
IMPORTANT
In order to interface with any a complex system without
disrupting the circuitry of the interdependencies that give it
its integrity we must look at the spread of relationships
that make the system robust.
Using only analysis of statistical data will offer conclusions
that can point to actions that are out of sync with the
complexity of the situation. Information without
interrelationality is likely to lead us toward actions that are
misinformed, thereby creating further destructive patterns.

14. Interconnected

15. Interdependent

16. I am a unique entity framing the world through the
only version of my filtering and sense making
processes… I am me.
There is no place in me, no aspect of me that is
uninfluenced, unconnected, or untouched by my
contexts ( language, culture, expereince,
education, genetics and so on).
I am me & I am not me.
The Paradox of Agency

17. Perception in context

18. Today’s Question
What is well-being?
….in a changing world?

19. Transcontextual Description
Transcontextual research presumes that no complex
system is viable in a single contextual set of relationships.
Therefore, this research requires inquiry that compares
and describes multiple contextual interdependencies.
It is difficult if not impossible to find a subject to study in
the living world that is definable within a single context.
Transcontextual research offers multiple descriptions of
the way in which a ‘subject’ is nested in many contexts.
This information provides descriptions of interactions that
seem to erase the boundaries of what we might have
previously considered to be parts and wholes.

20. Patterns that connect, Bertrand
Russell’s Logical Levels, Difference
that makes a difference, Multiple
description, Mutual learning and
calibration (Symmathesy), Iterative
multi-modal learning, Autopoeisis
(Varela and Maturana)
Mind (G. Bateson), Systems and
Complexity Theory, Ecology of
communication, Double Bind,
Conscious Purpose, Epistemological
frames, Change in complex systems,
Interdependency, Transcontextual
processes, Improvisation/sense-
making