In a world of information over-saturation, where the constant bombardment of spectacle, news and entertainment has reached a fever-pitch of colour and noise, where images, faces, people and (our) lives rush past (and through) us at an ever-accelerating pace - we find ourselves inhabiting the vacuum of our own dissatisfaction and dissonant disconnection with the…
Intuition, Computation and the Plausible Continuity of Human Civilisation
Intuitions are the common solutions or theorems of our everyday life. Going with a "gut feeling" is, however, very likely unrelated to the complex of neurons that actually exist in your gut. It is perhaps more of an insight into the patterns and symmetries of information and energy within (and as) which we exist. An…
The Plausible Necessity of Political Incompetence
Why is it that ideological, political and organisational ineptitude and incompetence are endlessly reoccurring phenomena? If the longer-term evolutionary or biological history of a living system, including it's diverse manifestations in and as cultural and political systems, is oriented towards efficient self-replication and continuity, why is it that so many poor-fitting (and indeed - positively…
Utopian Entropy
Utopian approximations towards self-organisation is emergent under sufficient circumstances and in well-tuned resonances.
The Hollow Men
One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you...
Countering the Inordinate Power of the Big Technology Companies
Corporate power in the technology domain is a complex cartography but it is not indecipherable. It takes intelligence and subtlety to address the problem of autonomously self-propagating information systems that have grown too large, too fast and in all of this speed and runaway self-replication represent something of an atavistic return to a state of accelerated reproduction which in cells occurs in (or as) cancer.
No One Owns Truth
There is no "best" idea, there are only "better" ones.
Sentience is Logical Recursion
We are the self-replicating logic of logical self-replication itself, repetition with refinement and variation.
Random You
We are actually all a lot more random and emotional than we tend to realise.
Between Life and Death
Life is commonly considered as antithetical to death but in some ways, there may be a common ground and source between them.
Viral Altruism and the Logic of Self-Propagation
A logic of self-organisation, information-pattern replication and complexity appears at every inflection of discovery to reveal itself as some kind of explanatory "master key".
Information Density
Information density is an interesting concept.
