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cybernetics

towards a continuity theorem

Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.

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cybernetics

what holds a society together?

Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?

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cybernetics

persistence precedes substance

What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?

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cybernetics

conflict, coherence, and the logic of recurrence

What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.

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Philosophy

a philosophical odyssey: niederhauser, nolan, and the meaning of time

The way we think about time quietly shapes the way we think about everything else.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: From Field-Level Principles to Domain-Level Practice

Applied Field Logic functions as a general analytical framework through which organisational regularities become comparable across otherwise unrelated domains. Advanced cybernetics.

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cybernetics

influence this: the probabilistic frequency structure of communication

Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.

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cybernetics

not cybernetics

Dissimulation.

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Philosophy

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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Philosophy

entrainment

Systems do not merely occupy space. They persist through timing, resonance, and the self-organising rhythms that sustain differential complexity.

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cybernetics

simply synchrony: rhythmic  structure of complexity

Civilisations do not simply make choices. They fall into rhythms — and the future may depend on learning how to change the music.

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Philosophy

Applied Field Logic: Mathematical Foundations

Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.