Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: Complexity

Yes, We’re All Individuals

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Post date Oct 8, 2026
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Why institutions, political movements and intellectual communities reproduce the same patterns of identity, conformity and exclusion while insisting on their differences.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Autorreproducción, アイデンティティ, コミュニケーション, システム思考, テクノロジー, collective behaviour, communication, complejidad, Complexity, Comportamiento Colectivo, comunicación, Conformidad Institucional, Diferencia, difference, Differenz, emergence, emergencia, Emergenz, 自己再生産, 集団行動, 複雑性, 言語, filosofía, identidad, Identität, identity, institutional conformity, Institutionelle Konformität, inteligencia artificial, künstliche Intelligenz, Kollektives Verhalten, Kommunikation, Komplexität, language, lenguaje, pensamiento sistémico, philosophie, Philosophy, Selbstreproduktion, self-reproduction, Sprache, Systemdenken, systems thinking, technologie, technology, tecnología, 制度的同調, 創発, 哲学, 差異, 人工知能

Philosophy

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Another Upgrade

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Post date Oct 8, 2026
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We have become extraordinarily good at making technology better, but much less skilled at recognising when good enough is enough. Much of what passes for progress now serves profit rather than people, so deeply embedded in our culture that we scarcely recognise the difference.

Philosophy

When Things Go Wrong: Complexity, Timing and Human Systems

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Post date Oct 6, 2026
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A humanistic philosophy informed by system dynamics: why simple solutions often displace problems across time and systems rather than resolving them.

Tags complex systems, Complexity, cybernetics, feedback, governance, humanism, Philosophy, social systems, system dynamics, systems thinking, technology, time

Philosophy

Smart Weapons, Stupid Wars: Why Peace Is Harder

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Post date Oct 3, 2026
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The question is whether civilisation can preserve its capacity to continue without making recurrent destruction the principal instrument of its renewal.

Tags Complexity, technology, power, war, intelligence, cybernetics, civilisation, Peace, entropy

cybernetics

Failed Aptitude: Why Power Keeps Selecting the Wrong People

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Post date Sep 28, 2026
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The scale of the consequences has changed while the competitive selection tests for authority remain embarrassingly small.

Tags authority, Complexity, failed aptitude, governance, institutions, leadership, organisational failure, political systems, power, systemic risk, systems theory, technology

cybernetics

The Spider That Is Bigger on the Inside: Book Lungs and the Geometry of Complexity

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Post date Sep 15, 2026
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A spider’s book lungs pack an immense surface for exchange into a tiny space. Across lungs, brains, cells and information, the same principle recurs: internal structure multiplies what a finite system can do.

Tags Biological Scaling, Book Lungs, complex systems, Complexity, emergence, evolution, Geoffrey West, geometry, information, Internal Structure, networks, relational systems, santa fe institute, Spiders, Surface Area

cybernetics

Crime and Punishment: The Generative Structure of Law and Disorder

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Post date Sep 13, 2026
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Crime and punishment are coupled systems that reproduce the epistemic distinction, differential diffusion and binding distance through which social order defines itself.

Tags anarchy, Complexity, crime, criminal justice, Foucault, law, narrative identity, panopticon, policing, punishment, self interference, social order, surveillance, systems theory, technology

cybernetics

Everybody Knows The Game is Rigged: Why Social Systems Keep Reproducing the Same Outcomes

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Post date Sep 13, 2026
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A rigged game constrains probabilities; it does not determine every outcome.

Tags Complexity, power, politics, communication, language, systems theory, Artificial Intelligence, ambiguity, corruption, equilibrium, misinformation, recurrence

Philosophy

Ixion’s Wheel: Technology and the Machinery of No Return

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Post date Sep 9, 2026
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Technology keeps solving the problems technology creates, tightening our dependence on machinery whose cumulative costs keep growing and from which there is no longer any clean exit.

Tags Complexity, cybernetics, dependency, digitalisation, entropy, infrastructure, Ixion, mythology, Nephele, simulation, sustainability, systems theory, technological recursion, technology

cybernetics

War Machine: The Technology That Conflict Builds

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Post date Sep 7, 2026
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Conflict builds technology, technology reorganises conflict, and somewhere inside the loop every new problem becomes someone’s next investment opportunity.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, autonomous systems, Complexity, conflict, cybersecurity, defence technology, dynamical systems, entropy, political economy, technological dependency, technological systems, technology, volatility, war

cybernetics Philosophy

Why Civilisation Cannot Solve the Problems It Creates: Diary of a Madman

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Post date Sep 1, 2026
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A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.

cybernetics

The Cybernetics of School: The Stars, the Well, and the Institution

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Post date Aug 31, 2026
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Institutions study the world remarkably well. The harder problem is that the world they are studying is also inside the building, and there is no position outside the system from which that entanglement simply disappears.