The absence of violence is not necessarily peace. From personal relationships to international affairs, insecurity persists when attempts to resolve conflict reproduce the conditions that generate it.
Tag: continuity
Things do not exist first and then form relationships. They emerge through relationships that sustain them. Identity, time and existence arise from differences that can never be completely resolved.
We mistake the brain for the seat of intelligence and the individual for its owner. Both depend upon a much larger system.
From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.
Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
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dire straits: the economics of delay
Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.
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before continuity
Nothing (and only nothing!) persists by remaining complete. Continuity emerges because every organised system must keep rebuilding the conditions of its own existence.
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continuity
Continuity is not something to assume, but something to explain. Organised systems persist by continually reproducing the biases that make their own continued organisation more probable.
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miracle of persistence
Life is not astonishing simply because it exists. It is astonishing because, against every available opportunity to fall apart, it keeps holding together and this resilience is the kernel core of its persistence.
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continuity precedes truth
Disinformation is not the opposite of information, but one of the ways communication organises uncertainty into meaning. Its deeper structure belongs less to politics than to the philosophical problem of how truth, coherence, and identity emerge at all.
