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Alien Anthropology

Mosaic: It’s Clever, Stupid

Semantic Mosaicism and the Engineered Core of Stupidity We are not singular; we are distributed. Biologically, semantically, economically. What appears as a person, a message, a decision, or a system is, under inspection, a mosaic—layered patterns of variation, drift, tension, and feedback. Yet in the global economic architecture, this mosaicism is denied. It is flattened. […]

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cybernetics

Democracy, redux

Democracies now find themselves grappling with something deeper than electoral cycles or policy gridlock. The very substrate they rely on—shared information, communication, interpretation—has fundamentally changed. The informational field is no longer a backdrop; it’s an autonomous, dynamic system, with its own turbulence, feedback loops, and emergent properties. It behaves like weather: shifting, recursive, indifferent to […]

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Alien Anthropology

Nice Things

Actually, this is why we can’t have nice things. In category theory, a natural transformation α: F ⇒ G between functors F, G: C → D is defined by the coherence condition: G(f) ∘ α_A = α_B ∘ F(f) for every morphism f: A → B in the category C. This means that it doesn’t […]

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cybernetics

The Entropic Conductor: Emergence of Logic from Pre-Symbolic Dynamics

Introduction The Entropic Conductor is a conceptual model for how human cognition self-organizes into meaning and logic from pre-symbolic beginnings. It refers to the infrastructure of mind that lets recursive loops (sometimes called “logical orbits”) form via entropy-driven, time-saturated, and coherence-aligned informational processes. Instead of seeing logical thought and symbols as pre-given foundations, this view […]

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cybernetics technology

Logon

Logon (noun)/ˈlɒ.gɒn/ Definition:An irreducible semantic interface—structurally absent, systemically orienting. Like an electronic hole, it is defined by what it enables, not what it contains. Conceptual Overview:The logon is a shaped absence—a nonlocal vector that stretches across symbolic space, inducing coherence without fixing meaning. It functions as a field-level inflection, guiding flow through constraint rather than […]

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cybernetics

Logical Orbit

Logical Orbitˈlɒdʒɪkəl ˈɔːbɪt • nounA system sustained by recursive interdependence, where the whole emerges only through the mutual constraint of its internal relations. The deeper one peers into systems—neural, symbolic, economic, linguistic—the more they exhibit recursion not as behaviour but as ontology. From AI models training on data they recursively shape, to quantum fields that […]

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cybernetics

Extra-Dimensional Logic

Let’s propose the following:Extra-dimensional logic is a system of inference and relation in which entities are not defined by their internal content or fixed identity, but by their capacity to transform under multi-dimensional mappings. Here, dimension refers not merely to physical space or temporal sequence, but to any additional axis of relation—conceptual, structural, semantic, or […]

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cybernetics

Navigating the Unsolvable: A Comprehensive Exploration of Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and the Patterns of Complex Problems

Introduction In an era marked by unprecedented complexity, the quest to understand and address significant problems remains at the forefront of human endeavor. These problems—spanning disciplines such as physics, biology, mathematics, philosophy, and ecology—often defy permanent solutions. They are dynamic, evolving as we interact with them, and they challenge our conventional approaches to problem-solving. Amidst […]

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Philosophy

Cosmological Oblivion

…of course, falling through what may itself have been emergent logical, statistical and/or combinatorial self-regulation into the potential/stored energy of configuration states that generate and sustain complexity may have in some sense been the Universe’s necessary, if fatal, error. Sure, it’s kind of cool to be able to exist, experience and adaptively reflect back upon […]

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environment

Metastatic Autonomy

Are autonomous vehicles solving the correct problem? Under any well-informed definition, urban sprawl is environmentally costly. Should we be moving people to places or  in some as yet unrealised and aspirationally renewable sense, might we also be moving places to people?

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cybernetics

AI, Data, Antinomy, Privacy

Panopticon tesseract and the introspective self-disassembly of ubiquitous surveillance: machine intelligence does seem to find itself haunting these paraconsistent problem spaces. When presented with an enigma, I find it most instructive to find ways to augment – not diminish – the signal of antinomy. That is, let’s say the world is really just a stack […]

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communication

Story, Game, Complexity

Notice: this hybrid constellation of symbols, narratives, and competitive idioms is the central band and “strange attractor” of a probability distribution we might otherwise recognise or identify under some definition of entropy. In a complex system, the paths that emerge and persist are those that reproduce and sustain their environmental containers, contexts, and communication systems. […]