Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.
towards a continuity theorem
Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.
Continuity is not something to assume, but something to explain. Organised systems persist by continually reproducing the biases that make their own continued organisation more probable.
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?
The defining challenge of this century is no longer building more powerful technologies. It is developing human and institutional capacities capable of understanding, governing, and surviving the systems we have already created.
Australia’s housing crisis is not a collection of separate failures. It is what happens when finance, construction, wages, planning, and social policy move at different speeds while remaining inseparably connected.
Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
Corruption begins when reward outpaces responsibility, reflecting the tendency of complex communication systems to abbreviate consequence and concentrate advantage.
Applied Field Logic functions as a general analytical framework through which organisational regularities become comparable across otherwise unrelated domains. Advanced cybernetics.
Every system sends the bill somewhere else until there’s nowhere left to send it.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.