Composing Systems for Advancing Advancing

This paper was developed from the Ranulph Glanville Memorial Lecture given during the conference of the International Society for Systems Sciences, July 7–11, 2022. It includes information related to neosentience research, and the Insight Engine 2.0 which is more contemporary in nature (August 17, 2024). Glanville in his many papers and presentations explored a series of systematic cybernetic methods. He employed these as a means to advance a set of approaches to design, various forms of creative production, his pedagogy, and sometimes to approach highly complex problem sets that were more didactic in nature, relating to aspects of cybernetics and second-order cybernetics. A series of these methods will be discussed. Additionally, Seaman’s methods explored in a project related to developing a new form of AI will be outlined. Both Glanville’s and Seaman’s approaches, influenced in part by Glanville, seek to explore “advancing advancing.”