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communication

After Bondi: Communication System Dynamics

After the Bondi shooting, what unfolds across news coverage, social media, and everyday conversation is not just reaction. It is a shared system under stress adjusting itself in real time. People feel fear, grief, anger, and vigilance because something genuinely terrible has happened. Those feelings are not secondary effects. They are the human reality of […]

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cybernetics

System Dynamics and Surface Rules: Sharkskin, Political Economy

Shark skin is a sheet of teeth: millimetre-scale placoid denticles, each with an enamel crown, dentine core and pulp cavity, rooted in the dermis and oriented from nose to tail so that one way feels smooth and the other rasps like sandpaper. In fast swimmers such as the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus and other pelagic […]

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cybernetics

Four-sided Triangles: Ideology

Once intellect is subordinated to ideology, what passes for intelligence becomes whatever reproduces the conditions that sustain that ideology. The prefabricated templates for thought and action that emerge date quickly; they produce only the kinds of crises they are designed to validate. This recursive self-authorization extends beyond political regimes or malfunctioning democracies—it defines a global […]

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cybernetics

Disinformation Dynamics

Language is a dynamic communicative field of oscillatory coupling, in which coherence, drift, and disinformation emerge as harmonic modes of the same process. Drawing on Kuramoto’s synchronisation model, synergetics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and information theory, this essay interprets linguistic activity as rhythmic modulation between repetition and deviation. Meaning arises through metastable oscillation among semantic attractors, maintained […]

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Philosophy

[01] Disinformation Dynamics: Unified Framework

Part 1 — Executive Summary and Scope Modern communication systems—political, technological, and cognitive—operate as self-organising fields of feedback. Their coherence does not arise from authority, ideology, or truth, but from rhythm: the timing, repetition, and resonance of interaction. Disinformation exploits this rhythm. It is not merely falsehood, but a manipulation of synchrony, coherence, and recursion—the […]

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Philosophy

[02] Disinformation Dynamics: Recursive Harmonics

2.1 Coherence as a Function of Recursion Every communication system is recursive. It consists of elements that transmit signals influencing their own subsequent states. This self-reference produces coherence. A message gains meaning not because it exists but because it is repeated, referenced, and reinterpreted. Without recursion, meaning is static. With recursion, meaning becomes dynamic and […]

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Philosophy

[03] Disinformation Dynamics: Interdiction Operations

3.1 Measurement Philosophy Measurement in recursive harmonic systems does not isolate variables; it captures relationships. Every observation modifies what is observed, because communication systems are reflexive. Therefore, measurement itself must be designed as participation in the field—an act of modulation that respects feedback dynamics. The goal is not to determine truth but to detect phase […]

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Philosophy

[04] Disinformation Dynamics: Operational Framework

4.1 Overview Disinformation interdiction is not the elimination of falsehood but the rebalancing of systemic coherence. It operates at the level of phase relationships—how signals align and reinforce one another—rather than semantic truth. The objective is to restore dynamic equilibrium: sufficient synchrony for stability, sufficient noise for adaptability. The system must breathe. Interdiction therefore proceeds […]

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Philosophy

[05] Disinformation Dynamics: Implementation and Resilience

5.1 The Principle of Reflexive Governance Governance within a recursive communication field cannot rely on static regulation. It must function as reflexive control—a governance system that perceives and adjusts its own influence in real time.Each intervention becomes a feedback signal: the regulator is part of the system, not external to it.This principle ensures adaptability without […]

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Philosophy

[06] Disinformation Dynamics: Simulation,  Forecasting, Adaptation

6.1 The Need for Predictive Reflexivity Static policy and reactive moderation fail because communication systems evolve faster than any predefined rule.Disinformation interdiction therefore requires predictive reflexivity—a capacity to anticipate systemic states by modelling their feedback structures. Forecasting in this framework is not prediction of content but simulation of phase evolution: how coherence, entropy, and recursivity […]

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cybernetics

Lattice

Meaning can be understood as relational invariance under transformation. In mathematics, invariance is what stays the same when everything else changes. In physics, such stability gives rise to conservation laws — momentum from translational symmetry, energy from temporal symmetry. Language behaves the same way: its meaning persists not through fixed definitions but through relationships that […]

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cybernetics

Wealth: Breaking the Future

Hyman Minsky, an economist who studied the fragility and collapse of financial systems, showed how finance is not neutral but recursive: price rises create collateral, collateral expands credit, and credit drives prices higher still. This acceleration does not move toward equilibrium but toward a critical inflection where reversal cascades through the system. Housing markets in […]