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Philosophy

the oldest questions

Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.

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cybernetics Philosophy

system time

Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.

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cybernetics

developmental delay

The defining challenge of this century is no longer building more powerful technologies. It is developing human and institutional capacities capable of understanding, governing, and surviving the systems we have already created.

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cybernetics

a theory of differential communication

Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.

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Philosophy

bureaucratic entropy

The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.

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cybernetics

corruption

Corruption begins when reward outpaces responsibility, reflecting the tendency of complex communication systems to abbreviate consequence and concentrate advantage.

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cybernetics

time is the finite propagation of relation

Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.

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cybernetics

aristotle’s egg

Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.