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information

The Distributed Brain of Culture: Cognition Beyond the Individual

We mistake the brain for the seat of intelligence and the individual for its owner. Both depend upon a much larger system.

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cybernetics

parenting, adolescence and the organisation of difference

Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.

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politics

the trouble with monoculture

Culture survives because it changes. A culture that cannot change is not being preserved. It is being embalmed.

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Science

the conspicuous absence in science

Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.