What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
Tag: cybernetics
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.
The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.
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enlightenment
Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
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towards a continuity theorem
Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.
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what holds a society together?
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
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persistence precedes substance
What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?
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