Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Tag: cybernetics
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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?
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
Applied Field Logic functions as a general analytical framework through which organisational regularities become comparable across otherwise unrelated domains. Advanced cybernetics.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
