Exploded-view models of mechanical systems approximate to logical analysis in ways that similar disassembly of organically complex and integrated materially complex systems do not.
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Out of Context
Taken out of context (or explicit authorial intent), anything can appear (or be construed as) false.
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Accelerating Frames of History
The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards…
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An Invention of Imperfection ?
The shortest form of technological solution is generally that of negation. It is in the essential and axiomatic logic of both communication and technology more generally to seek advantage through reduction, negation, compression.
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Impermanence: Tattoo Fascination
Investment in inscribed permanence and attachment to continuing body or concept and symbol is the very thing which emphasises and reminds us of the ultimate and inevitable transience-into-disassembly-and-nonexistence of this vessel and mind.
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Simple Truths and Complex Facts
What is the value of truth ?
Self and subjective psychological depth may be little more than a convenience – a fabrication or persistent fantasy and self-propagating illusion.
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Ideological Entropy
Where intellectual or ethical bankruptcy is the pivot upon which any untenable political assertion or associated narrative rests, an overinvestment in faulty reasoning becomes something of an inevitability.
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Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least – the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
Most narratives of post-AI apocalypse fail to acknowledge that whatever it is that is going on between all of our ears might actually represent a resource or asset of study and creative experimentation for an artificial superintelligence.
The influence of popular communications and media is an effect measured by the relative simplicity of the associated communication method.
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The Limits of Automation
If automation is only limited by the boundaries of what we can describe, are we actually capable of describing those entities, processes, objects and systems of non-trivially sophisticated complexity with which we all must eventually and inevitably engage ?
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