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not cybernetics

Dissimulation.

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cybernetics

optimise this

We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.

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knot clever: machine learning

The road to hell is paved with greedy algorithms.

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cybernetics

à plus tard

Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.

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systems thinking

A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.

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simply synchrony: rhythmic  structure of complexity

Civilisations do not simply make choices. They fall into rhythms — and the future may depend on learning how to change the music.

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Applied Field Logic: Why?

The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.

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cybernetics

technology: we have a problem…

Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.

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what is economic reality?

Economic reality is not found in the cash register. It is found in the relational field that makes the register mean anything at all.

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system dynamics: non-linearity

Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.

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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change

We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.

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political role play

Modern political systems often reward symbolic fluency over systems literacy. The result is a governing class skilled at hierarchy, performance, and institutional ritual, but poorly equipped to understand the complex, recursive problems it claims to manage.