It is a little hard not to feel somewhat dispossessed and saddened by the arc of catastrophe that human history traces in time. There is some essential adversarial turn in psychology and nature that provides and requires the entropy from which new forms of thought and life are able to emerge. We come to depend […]
Tag: Complexity
I appear to have made several fatal errors of judgement in attempting to decode culture, cognition, communication and complexity. The essence of comprehension and information that we attribute as rational, foundational and amenable to explanation is not encoded in such a way as to ever be fully decompressed, unpacked, structured and recorded. It has always […]
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Mind the Gap
Our systems of logistics and commuter transport derive the abstract, symbolic value and benefit of logical continuity from their function just as much as the commuters do.
Complexity is a lot smarter than we are – all of our ratiobal interdictions into behavioural and sociological problems tend to amplify by displacement those problems.
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Hong Kong: Umbrellas on the Go Game
The international society of nations, such as it is, is not very often seeking clever solutions to the problems that it itself is generating, across all countries and conflicts. Each instance of dissonance is a microcosm of a global property of discontinuity, a distributed planetary discord that is oblivious to nation or ideology and that we all are dealing with, wherever we are.
Culture is the logical inversion of the human mind.
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Bread Crumbs
Going with the flow of natural law and optimally-concise emergent complexity proves to be an intractable enigma for the collective geopolitical neurotic atavism of our world.
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Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.
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There are no “Creative Types”
We are all, each and every one of us, “creative types”.
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Consciousness: Beyond Opposites
Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.
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Utopian Entropy
Utopian approximations towards self-organisation is emergent under sufficient circumstances and in well-tuned resonances.
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
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