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Philosophy

Replicating Narrative Uncertainty

𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙣π™ͺπ™©π™¨π™π™šπ™‘π™‘: 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘒𝘀π˜ͺ𝘡𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘒 𝘯𝘒𝘳𝘳𝘒𝘡π˜ͺ𝘷𝘦 π˜ͺ𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘒𝘳 𝘒𝘴 𝘀𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘡π˜ͺ𝘒𝘭 𝘒𝘴 π˜ͺ𝘴 π˜ͺ𝘡𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴π˜ͺ𝘴𝘡𝘦𝘯𝘀𝘦. A key takeaway is that while the replication of systems of cultural narrative are the center of gravity, truth itself is (or becomes) incidental to the main game of communications system self-replication. Institutional “doom scrolling” is a generative method by […]

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Complexity

Self-Organising Criticality in Brains, Battles and Universes

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 […]