Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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consciousness and the human world
Tag: emergence
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
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cockroach party
Social media did not create the grievance. It synchronised millions of separate frustrations into a single political force.
Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.
Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
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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 do not simply make choices. They fall into rhythms — and the future may depend on learning how to change the music.
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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system dynamics: non-linearity
Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.
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continuum: if unity, then…
Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.
Daedelus Kite 