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culture Philosophy

Culture and Mind: Surface, Depth, Continuum

Culture is the logical inversion of the human mind.

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communication culture Philosophy

Ex Nihilo

Only nothing comes from nothing and only nothing is effortlessly produced…

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technology

Cyber Insecurity: Endless Breaches

Context: New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report There is an enigma here, far beyond the rank foolishness of keeping vast quantities of such sensitive data in an unencrypted format (see the linked article), there is a deeper problem. The more valuable any data is, the more incentive there […]

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culture ideology ignorance systems

Disentangling Hate

Who benefits from stoking the fires of fear, insecurity and hatred?

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culture

Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.

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culture

There are no “Creative Types”

We are all, each and every one of us, “creative types”.

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Alien Anthropology culture

Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is trivial

Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.

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culture technology

To Brain or not to Brain, that is the question (in AI Research)

To brain or not to brain, that is the question…

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culture

Consciousness: Beyond Opposites

Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.

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culture

Utopian Entropy

Utopian approximations towards self-organisation is emergent under sufficient circumstances and in well-tuned resonances.

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culture

The Hollow Men

One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…

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culture Philosophy

Gothic Beauty

The enigmas of human psychology and culture are writ large in the domain of Gothic fascination with darkness and death.