Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.

communication Complexity culture

Information System Reflexivity

Post author By G
Post date Feb 3, 2019
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The key selection factor for successful pattern self-replication in a transmission medium is the extent to which the information content of that message also (reflexively) supports the propagation of the integrated or gestalt information system represented by the networked transmission medium itself.

Tags academic, biology, communication, compression, information, internet, media, physics, recursion, technology, University

communication Psychology systems

Self-Propagating Memetic Information Systems

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Post date Feb 1, 2019
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Human minds are self-propagating patterns of information that are implicitly biased towards seeking biological, cultural and technological methods of (self-)reproduction.

Tags communication, Complexity, culture, information, internet, logic, meme, memes, Psychology, recursion, social engineering, technology, vulnerability

communication culture Psychology

On Tribal Narratives and Environmental Catastrophe

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Post date Jan 28, 2019
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A core human psychological trait of small-scale tribal herding may work against the kind of global organisational unity and cooperation required to cultivate substantive industrial and economic change in the limited time still available to us.

Tags climate, climate change, communication, economics, entropy, environment, Global, global warming, humanity, industry, information, language, life, narrative, planet, politics, words, writing

politics systems

Populist Simplicity

The road to hell is paved with populist simplicities.

Tags bolsinaro, brazil, communication, communications, crime, entropy, guns, information, media, populism, recursion, systems, violence

communication Philosophy

Improbable Insights

What we require most critically is insight and effective methods for sharing valuable information with other minds. This is quite probably the most difficult communication task with which to successfully engage.