Living systems, space, and coherence Living systems do not operate in a single space in the sense of a bounded domain, nor do they truly inhabit many distinct ones; rather, they instance a continuous relational field whose articulation into behavioural, transcriptional, morphological, physiological, and symbolic sub-spaces constitutes its harmonic structure, not a reduction of it. […]
The contemporary ethics of artificial intelligence is dominated by institutional reports, advisory panels, and compliance frameworks that focus on bias mitigation, transparency checklists, and downstream harm reduction. These efforts are not meaningless, but they are constrained by the same political, legal, and economic structures that fund them and define their remit. As a result, the […]
The world is an analog continuum. It does not arrive segmented, categorised, or discretised. What comes in pieces is the machinery we use to act within it: language, logic, metrics, models, and the formal decision structures that allow complex systems to function at scale. These are not errors; they are instruments. They make coordination possible, […]
We are taught to treat quantum mechanics as intrinsically strange, opaque, almost hostile to intuition. The standard story is that reality itself is bizarre, and that only extreme mathematical sophistication grants partial access to it. Yet this framing quietly ignores another possibility: that many workable intuitions, partial models, and genuinely useful ways of thinking never […]
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) was a pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose meticulous work provided critical insights into the structure of DNA. Her photograph 51, capturing the helical diffraction pattern of DNA fibres, was instrumental in revealing the molecule’s double-helix form, though her contributions were long overshadowed by others who built upon her data. Working […]
What if autism isn’t a glitch in the human code but a pattern in the larger field, a ripple of constructive difference emerging where things are becoming too uniform? Intelligence may not be a sealed package behind our eyes but a network effect of bodies, environments, and signals, a distributed resonance rather than a solitary […]
If unity is assumed, then the only coherent approach is to work backwards from it. This is not about sentiment or abstraction but about logical necessity: if there is unity, then every relation already participates in it, and our task is to discern how those connections reproduce the whole. Unity is not an optional conclusion […]
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) laid the foundations of statistical mechanics, connecting microscopic randomness with macroscopic #order. His equation, S = k log W, showed that entropy measures the number of possible configurations a system can occupy, revealing a profound link between chance and inevitability. Entropy was not merely disorder but a structural principle: a bridge between […]
Context: Mobile Genes From the Mother Shape the Baby’s Microbiome It’s interesting – we can rarely predict precisely what complex systemic relationships will occur, we can only be certain that they will occur. Our own continuity as individual (human) organisms is a function of the extent to which this emergence is a reliable fact. That […]
Context: AI must be developed responsibly to improve mental health outcomes It is a delicate and potentially dangerous matter when self-validating commercial incentives and their accelerated technical metamorphoses have taken the center of surveilling, assessing and aspirationally recalibrating human experience in this way. I quite often wonder about the compound, composite ironies of a world […]
The notion (articulated in the video) that the homeostatic process by which quasicriticality is maintained in the brain may have an essentially cybernetic explanation. In Jeff Hawkins’ “A Thousand Brains” he references neurophysiologist Vernon Mountcastle’s belief in the existence of an underlying (as unifying) organisational principle in the brain. I wouldn’t be at all surprised […]
Context: Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos. Brain as decentralised communications network that exists with optimal efficiency on a globally-distributed fractal boundary between order and disorder? “Specific brain networks seemed to communicate with each other in what looked like a “dance,” with one region appearing to “listen” […]
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