Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
Tag: cybernetics
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the value of nothing
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
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entrainment
Systems do not merely occupy space. They persist through timing, resonance, and the self-organising rhythms that sustain differential complexity.
Civilisations fall into rhythms, and changing those rhythms changes the futures they can sustain.
Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.
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Applied Field Logic: Why?
The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
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political role play
Modern political systems often reward symbolic fluency over systems literacy. The result is a governing class skilled at hierarchy, performance, and institutional ritual, but poorly equipped to understand the complex, recursive problems it claims to manage.
The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.
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reality
Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.
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language as harmonic structure
Meaning is not stored in words; it emerges as harmonic structure through time.
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cmd & ctrl, we have a problem
The drone is only the visible object. The real event is the combinatorial explosion of sensors, signals, decisions, delays, targets, countermeasures, and feedback loops.
