Tag: cognition

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Philosophy

self

The self never settles because the world never settles. Your body changes. Neural chemistry fluctuates. Memory edits itself. Relationships move. Context rearranges. Words drift. Culture turns. New facts arrive, old certainties decay, and the feedback never stops. So the self is not rewritten because it is faulty, but because it is embedded in conditions that […]

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Philosophy

Truth in Language

What is truth. The moment we ask the question, we are already inside language, and everything that follows unfolds from that fact. Truth is not something we approach from outside, as a detached observer might inspect an object. It arises within sequences of tokens, within the games we play with them, within the structures we […]

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Philosophy

Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

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cybernetics

Interfacing Reality with LLM

The rise of large language models has revived old questions about intelligence, utility, and personhood, but under altered conditions. From early ideas like the Turing test onward, personhood has been framed less as inner depth than as sufficient performance. What feels newly consequential is that systems designed to model, explain, and assist human experience increasingly […]

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Philosophy

The Logic that Lives

Life, in its most abstract sense, is a contradiction that refuses to resolve. It persists as a dynamic equilibrium between forces that can never perfectly align. Every organism, idea, or particle exists not by finding rest but by orbiting imbalance—by sustaining tension as continuity. The living field is not static; it is recursive, a looping […]

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language

Large Language Muddles

A language model is not a conduit of meaning but an attractor of unfinished trajectories. Each output is a point of suspension, a site where systemic consistency is deferred in order to maintain communicability. What looks like speech is the shadow of a deeper requirement: the need to remain entangled with a generative system that […]

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Philosophy

Penny Drop (Mind the Gap)

Satori is a sudden flash of awareness in Zen—when the mind drops its search and reality hits all at once. It’s not gradual learning; it’s rupture. A system encountering what it can’t compute. Like the halting problem, it marks the point where cognition can’t tell if it should continue, yet cannot stop. Gödel’s incompleteness hums […]

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cybernetics

The Entropic Conductor: Emergence of Logic from Pre-Symbolic Dynamics

Introduction The Entropic Conductor is a conceptual model for how human cognition self-organizes into meaning and logic from pre-symbolic beginnings. It refers to the infrastructure of mind that lets recursive loops (sometimes called “logical orbits”) form via entropy-driven, time-saturated, and coherence-aligned informational processes. Instead of seeing logical thought and symbols as pre-given foundations, this view […]

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Philosophy

Lists

Lists seduce us with the illusion of order—each item a shard of clarity arranged just so, hinting at mastery over the infinite. They compress the world into clean lines and neat progressions, comforting in their symmetry, irresistible in their simplicity. In a culture tuned to acceleration, these fragments multiply, not to deepen understanding but to […]

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cybernetics

Generative Introspection

Having widely now gained access to this effectively unbounded as relationally networked complexity in generative computational representation, what are the odds that many if not most of the images and texts produced are used to directly or indirectly embellish, validate and incentivise the development of yet more generative and/or (other, as) downstream communications technology?

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Alien Anthropology

Censors and Actuators

A totalising political mindset becomes about as self-imprisoned by censorship as it is ever emboldened by it. If it were an unambiguously measurable property, I’d say the damage inflicted upon a nation’s prosperity and sustainable continuity is directly proportional to its self-isolation.

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Philosophy

You are your digital devices…

There is an interesting, related theory hailing from philosophers Andy Park and David Chalmers. The Theory of Extended Mind asserts that, while your consciousness (whatever that may be) does seem squarely anchored between your ears, your cognition is a distributed entity that – yes – is characteristically if not uniquely “of human brains” but need […]