Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.
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dire straits: the economics of delay
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recursion, technically
Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference by which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.
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the oldest questions
Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.
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status hierarchy: role-play
Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.
Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
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towards a continuity theorem
Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.
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before continuity
Nothing (and only nothing!) persists by remaining complete. Continuity emerges because every organised system must keep rebuilding the conditions of its own existence.
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continuity
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.
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what holds a society together?
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
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persistence precedes substance
What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?
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