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Alien Anthropology

Before Words

It is a continuum that precedes the adaptive scaffolding of rules, a topology in which emergence is not sequence but diffusion, inertial self-entanglement . No stepping stones, no waypoints: only gradients that viscously descend into what later appears as order, meaning, belief, purpose. The Shepard tone of entropy is its register—always rising, drift where difference […]

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systems

Higher-Dimensionality, Negation, Logical Freedom

Organisational and technological systems are generally structured by linear, procedural and additive modular methods. The new degrees of freedom available at a logical level are rarely acknowledged. Unexplored, abstract logical spaces of literal higher-dimensionality also exist. Higher dimensions are not magical, metaphysical mystery tours in some “other” spatial place or additional bolt-on to reality; they […]

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Philosophy

Homelesness: a “Wicked Problem” of Complexity

Why does homelessness occur and why is it so difficult to find and apply lasting solutions? In a nutshell: Entropy. This is not a rhetorical affectation but as an authentic explanatory and causal explanation. Many socioeconomic problems are complex but within a relatively limited problem “dimensionality” – consider crowd control or public transport. They are […]