The only way that systemic unity can exist is, enigmatically, by not existing.
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Organisational Concept Mnemonics
Organisational principles or methods are certainly facillitated by visual mnemonics, but the process is lossy – useful or important information is always lost in translation.
The great enigma of scientific and technological progress: for every great leap forwards there exists a concurrent potential for even greater (catastrophic) leaps backwards.
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Statistically Hipster
Counter-cultures that become popular inevitably invalidate themselves. You cannot actually exist on the periphery when everyone else inhabits the same space.
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Understanding Innovation
What is a significant innovation? What are the most algorithmically concise paths in any recombinatory possibility-space between significant innovations?
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Conceptual Homeostasis
Does the social (and psychological) context of science and technology fundamentally inhibit the free exploration and development of new modes of thought ?
Advances in autonomous, automated information processing technologies appear closely coupled to a qualitative devaluation of what we have always assumed were uniquely human attributes.
As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified.
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Stealthy Hackers
Cybersecurity is an iterative, recombinatory and open-ended logical process.
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The Uncertainty Zeitgeist
Substantive, meaningful content in our shared information spaces is suffering from an information-systems evolutionary selection mechanism that is implicitly biased towards continuity over coherence.
The key selection factor for successful pattern self-replication in a transmission medium is the extent to which the information content of that message also (reflexively) supports the propagation of the integrated or gestalt information system represented by the networked transmission medium itself.
Humanity spends far too much time bickering and fighting over how we will collectively move forward to ever actually get on with the very serious business of actually ensuring our own continuity, survival and ongoing tenure on this planet.
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