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Inside the Cognitive War

A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]

Tags ai and society, AI ethics, algorithmic control, algorithmic influence, Artificial Intelligence, attention economy, behavioral engineering, cognitive war, collective intelligence, communication systems, complex systems, computational systems, corporate power, critical theory, cultural control, cybernetics, digital-power, disinformation, emergence and complexity, entropy and complexity, Global Systems, human cognition, human condition, identity and power, information age, information warfare, media ecology, misinformation, modern civilization, philosophy of culture, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, platform capitalism, political manipulation, political psychology, propaganda, psychological warfare, social media influence, societal change, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems theory, systems thinking, tech power, technological mediation, technology and politics

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 […]

Peace Philosophy

Kindness

Post author By G
Post date Jan 23, 2026
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No, Elon, empathy is not the weakness of civilisation. Kindness, compassion, and mutual care are the conditions that make civilisation possible at all. Large-scale cooperation, cultural continuity, and institutional complexity do not emerge from fear, dominance, or competition. They emerge from trust, reciprocity, and the slow accumulation of relational stability. Without these, society collapses back […]

cybernetics

After Trump

Post author By G
Post date Jan 13, 2026
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If the United States survives Trump, there is a genuine possibility of reconstruction, but only because damage exposes the relationships that mattered and brings hidden dependencies into the open, revealing how the system was actually held together. The damage being inflicted is real and severe, economic and political at once. Disruption to institutions, markets, and […]

Tags adaptive governance, applied systems theory, authoritarian governance, authority and force, cognitive diversity, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems, complexity and democracy, complexity theory, coordination without central command, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, decentralised coordination, democratic resilience, distributed intelligence, economic reconstruction, emergence, feedback loops, field logic, governance systems, holism, institutional collapse, institutional rebuilding, learning systems, legitimacy and power, non-linear dynamics, performative governance, phase delay, policy failure, political cybernetics, political economy, political systems analysis, post-crisis reconstruction, reconstruction politics, resilience theory, second-order cybernetics, signal and noise, social cohesion, spectacle politics, system failure modes, systems collapse, systems learning, systems resilience, systems theory, Trump, Trump politics, Trump presidency, worker-centered reconstruction

Philosophy

Philosophical Alienation

Consciousness entails perspectival isolation. Subjective experience is necessarily local, bounded by the fact that one mind does not have direct access to another. Philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cognitive science converge on this constraint, whether framed as first-person authority, privacy of qualia, or irreducible point of view. Language does not remove this barrier. It operationalises […]

Tags alienation, cognitive science, collective intelligence, collective understanding, communication theory, Complexity, consciousness, coordination, cultural theory, deferred meaning, disagreement, distributed cognition, emergence, Epistemology, existential isolation, existential philosophy, field dynamics, first person perspective, identity, identity formation, individuation, intellect, isolation, language philosophy, legibility, linguistic mediation, loneliness, meaning making, meaning without fusion, modern philosophy, non convergence, ontic absence, Ontology, perspicacity, phenomenology, Philosophy, philosophy of mind, pluralism, political coherence, political philosophy, post structuralism, privacy of experience, qualia, rationality, relational meaning, relational systems, self sustainment, selfhood, semantics, shared isolation, shared meaning, social cognition, strategy, structural difference, subjectivity, systems philosophy, systems thinking, tension, unity and multiplicity

cybernetics

Exclusionary Tactics

I lost a great deal of time mistaking other people’s expectations for responsibilities I was obliged to meet. Not because they were explicit, but because they were ambient. They arrived as tone, as assumption, as the quiet sense that something was already required before any choice was made. Quietly, over years, I volunteered to process […]

Science

A Thousand Brains

I’m about half way through reading Jeff Hawkins’ book “A Thousand Brains” which has been taking me quite some time, not because it is overly complicated or inaccessible, but because I tend to have so little spare time these days. It’s an interesting read with the key takeaway (so far) being that our mental world […]