Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: adaptive capacity

Freedom from Self

Freedom is not something the self acquires; it is what becomes possible when the self loosens its grip. The more freedom is claimed by the self, the more tightly the self binds itself to definitions, expectations, dependencies, and obligations that must be maintained. Identity hardens. Choice narrows into rehearsal. Autonomy turns into enclosure. What is […]

Tags adaptive capacity, attention dynamics, authoritarian psychology, cognitive entrainment, complexity systems, field logic, freedom from self, global interdependence, identity and freedom, invariance under transformation, non self psychology, political affect, relational identity, rigidity and fragility, self-propagation, systemic collapse

Philosophy

Hollow States

Post author By G
Post date Dec 26, 2025
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No complex system is complete, and none ever settles into final coherence. It persists by operating near its own failure modes, always collapsing toward equilibrium without arriving there. This condition is not exceptional; it is constitutive. Collapse is not what ends systems, but what allows them to reproduce themselves. Systems endure by continuously redistributing error, […]