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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 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.
+'''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.
 ==Personal Life==
-Born in 1956 to a Map Surveyor & Draftsman father from Edinburgh and a Primary Teacher mother from South Bank, Middlesbrough.
+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.
-Born in Barrow, Lancashire, raised in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.
 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.
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 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.
-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.
+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.
 ==Academia and Career==
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 Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places:
-* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.
+* That 21stC '''neuro-science and neuro-psychology provide a sound basis''' fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science.
 * 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.