The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
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system dynamics: non-linearity
Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.
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Field Logic and Semiotics
This essay advances a limited but precise claim: meaning in communicative systems depends on structured delay, and that delay is constitutive of causal relations rather than incidental to them. Where there is a point of emission and a point of reception, the signal that passes between them is not merely a connector. It participates in […]
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Fate
Fate is a word we use to cast the past (and future) as though it ever could have been anything other than sheer randomness and confusion; we assert an order upon memory or history such that we might reflexively self-define ourselves through it. Fate is another word for a hope of order, meaning or purpose […]
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Understanding Innovation
What is a significant innovation? What are the most algorithmically concise paths in any recombinatory possibility-space between significant innovations?
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Strange Days – Rewriting the Past
If the past was as open to possibility as the future, the present could still be exactly what it is…
