https://wiki.isss.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=PsybertronISSS Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-01T19:18:08ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.6https://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=2007Ian Glendinning2025-08-06T11:47:27Z<p>Psybertron: /* Personal Life */ typo fix</p>
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{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, Ian's engineering experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods, tools & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough. Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of starting this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this erstwhile techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-psychology provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human communication, decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=User:Psybertron&diff=2006User:Psybertron2025-08-06T11:46:19Z<p>Psybertron: Added link</p>
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<div>Psybertron in the user name of [[Ian Glendinning]] not just here at ISSS Wiki, but in most on-line platforms.</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=User:Psybertron&diff=2005User:Psybertron2025-08-06T11:45:08Z<p>Psybertron: Created minimum clarification page.</p>
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<div>Psybertron in the user name of Ian Glendinning not just here at ISSS Wiki, but in most on-line platforms.</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1996Ian Glendinning2025-08-05T08:51:05Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, Ian's engineering experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods, tools & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough. Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of starting this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this erstwhile techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-psychology provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human communication, decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1991Ian Glendinning2025-08-04T20:45:11Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods, tools & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of starting this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this erstwhile techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-psychology provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human communication, decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1990Ian Glendinning2025-08-04T14:23:32Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods, tools & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of starting this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this erstwhile techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human communication, decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1989Ian Glendinning2025-08-04T10:34:29Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of starting this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this erstwhile techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human communication, decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1988Ian Glendinning2025-08-04T08:37:23Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
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|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
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|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
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|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of starting this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this erstwhile techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1987Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T14:47:31Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 21st C metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of staring this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1986Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T14:45:30Z<p>Psybertron: /* Personal Life */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of staring this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1985Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T14:29:54Z<p>Psybertron: /* Selected Links & Publications */ First Draft Content</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
Ian's work, with a few media exceptions, is primarily contained within [https://www.psybertron.org his blog at Psybertron]<br />
<br />
Selected links will be posted here where they are topically related to ISSS interests.<br />
<br />
In practice, Ian is writing-up his research so far into:<br />
(a) a PhD-style Thesis - [https://www.academia.edu/109958139/Research%20Proposal%20Ian%20Glendinning%20Draft%204 current research proposal here].<br />
(b) a Technical publication for a wider audience, and <br />
(c) a Magic-realism Auto-fiction.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1984Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T14:22:49Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Selected Links & Publications==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1983Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T14:20:49Z<p>Psybertron: /* Special Interests */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. '''This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand''' for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting '''a new knowledge ecosystem''' enabling better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1982Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T14:18:29Z<p>Psybertron: /* Special Interests */ First draft content</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''.<br />
<br />
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention.<br />
<br />
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics.<br />
<br />
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:<br />
<br />
* That 21stC neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.<br />
<br />
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting a new knowledge ecosystem which enables make better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us.<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1979Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:16:59Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
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|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1978Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:16:12Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities industries and software "solutions" consulting business. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1977Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:14:58Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 and had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1976Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:13:21Z<p>Psybertron: /* Academia and Career */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 but had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
Best summarised on LinkedIn.<br />
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianglendinning/<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1975Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:07:35Z<p>Psybertron: /* Personal Life */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 but had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was grew up, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1974Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:05:51Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021 but had involvement with INCOSE since 2009. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''helping humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in the 1960's counterculture and our 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was raised, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1973Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:02:50Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes cover both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was raised, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1972Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T13:01:06Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was raised, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1971Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T12:54:08Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=0009-0008-6058-784X<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was raised, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1970Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T11:48:28Z<p>Psybertron: /* Personal Life */</p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
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|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by our having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was raised, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
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==Academia and Career==<br />
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==Special Interests==<br />
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==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
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[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1969Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T11:33:21Z<p>Psybertron: /* Personal Life */</p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
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|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level and going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland, the latter afforded by my having moved before retirement to a village very close to where I was raised, on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
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==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1968Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T11:32:02Z<p>Psybertron: /* Personal Life */ Added</p>
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{{<br />
ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
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|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
Born in 1956 to Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.<br />
Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level and going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries.<br />
<br />
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day.<br />
<br />
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research.<br />
<br />
Beyond the subjects of my work and research, my main interests and activities aimed at embodied engagement with humanity and our ecosystem are live music and hiking in the wild country of coast and moorland the latter afforded by my having moved before retirement to a village on the North Yorks coast with the moors national park behind us.<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1965Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:49:32Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Management, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://independent.academia.edu/IanSGlendinning<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
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==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
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==Citations==<br />
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==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1964Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:44:00Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://independent.academia.edu/IanSGlendinning<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award (2011)<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1963Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:41:42Z<p>Psybertron: End of first major content creation (with draft and many minor edits completed.)</p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|title=Member<br />
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|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://independent.academia.edu/IanSGlendinning<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Seeing that same driver in 1960's counterculture and 2020's metacrisis. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1962Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:39:02Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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ISSS Member<br />
|name=Ian Glendinning<br />
|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
|notable_works="Psybernetics"<br />
|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://independent.academia.edu/IanSGlendinning<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award<br />
|links=https://www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1961Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:38:02Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|image=2020sMugShot.jpg<br />
|period=2021<br />
|title=Member<br />
|affiliation=Private Individual<br />
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|interests=Better Human Decision-making Beyond Science<br />
|degrees=B.Sc(Eng)Aero, MBA.<br />
|fields=Engineering, Quality, Ontologies, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Critical Systems Thinking<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations= Neuroscientific- and Neuropsychological-based Process-relational and Information-computational Metaphysics, Counterfactuals as Creative Constraints, Strong Emergence, Evolved Autonomy, Affective Perception & Ergodicity.<br />
|orcid=https://independent.academia.edu/IanSGlendinning<br />
|achievements=Fiatech "STAR" Award<br />
|links=https//www.psybertron.org<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
<br />
==Citations==<br />
<br />
==Links to relevant pages==<br />
<br />
[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1960Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:25:15Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|specializations=To fill<br />
|orcid=To Fill<br />
|achievements=To fill<br />
|links=To fill<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as [https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
==Academia and Career==<br />
<br />
==Special Interests==<br />
<br />
==Video Presentations==<br />
<br />
==Selected Publications==<br />
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==Citations==<br />
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==Links to relevant pages==<br />
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[[Category: Members]]</div>Psybertronhttps://wiki.isss.org/index.php?title=Ian_Glendinning&diff=1959Ian Glendinning2025-08-03T10:22:44Z<p>Psybertron: </p>
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ISSS Member<br />
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|fields=To fill<br />
|universities=Imperial College, London<br />
|specializations=To fill<br />
|orcid=To Fill<br />
|achievements=To fill<br />
|links=To fill<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as[https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as[https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as[https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
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'''Ian Glendinning''' joined ISSS in 2021. He's an individual researcher in the original 1946 spirit of Cybernetics - ''managing humanity out of a world in crisis'' - since 2001 when he first started blogging as[https://www.psybertron.org '''''Psybertron''''']. Now retired and full-time devoted to ''Systems Thinking'' research and writing, Ian had a 50+ years career in applied real-world systems engineering. Starting originally in Aerospace, ian's experience was mainly in the Energy and Process Plants capital facilities and software "solutions" consulting industries. Systems scopes both ''Physical Systems'' (of fluids, pressure, energy, structures, process & control) and ''Human Systems'' (of people, behaviour, organisation, management, processes, methods & procedures.) The majority, the last 30 years, of that 50 year career was focussed on ''Information Modelling'' the content and processes of such systems and hence their ''Architecture'' rather than the technology, seen primarily as the evolving toolset.<br />
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