Abstract This paper advances a cybernetic account of complex adaptive systems in which coherence is sustained by unresolved tension rather than equilibrium. The orbit frame is introduced as a relational model that represents systems as networks of elastic constraints across gaps that never fully close. Logical orbit is defined as the recursive dynamical process that […]
Beauty is a trap you walk into willingly. You know you’re being played—by bone structure, by light, by the chemical theatre of your own brain—but you don’t care. You lean in. We all do. It’s the oldest con in the book and the only one we want to keep running. Cross-cultural psychology has been here […]
Technology offers the illusion of choice, but this abundance of options rarely constitutes a solution. A true solution integrates context, consequence, and continuity; it reshapes the system from which the problem arose. An option, by contrast, is a terminus disguised as autonomy—predefined, delimited, and often contingent upon the very infrastructure that created the tension in […]
The slow, recursive attenuation of literacy, numeracy, and general socio-affective competency is a contemporary instance of distributed entropic diffusion. This systemic informational metabolism leads to the kind of exasperated volatility and confusion that fuels partisan perseveration in political or ideological spheres. While long, complex sentences may offer resistance to the automated flattening of language, they […]
Actually, this is why we can’t have nice things. In category theory, a natural transformation α: F ⇒ G between functors F, G: C → D is defined by the coherence condition: G(f) ∘ α_A = α_B ∘ F(f) for every morphism f: A → B in the category C. This means that it doesn’t […]
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) laid the foundations of statistical mechanics, connecting microscopic randomness with macroscopic #order. His equation, S = k log W, showed that entropy measures the number of possible configurations a system can occupy, revealing a profound link between chance and inevitability. Entropy was not merely disorder but a structural principle: a bridge between […]
Diving in… Culture is a slow-moving entropic wave, propagating through time as an emergent pattern of communication. Unlike speech or writing, which operate on high-frequency scales, culture moves through a distributed process of accumulation, decay, recombination, and redistribution. It is neither stable nor chaotic but oscillates within a state of perpetual disequilibrium, shaped by noise, […]
The dominance of simplistic narratives—and the minds they shape—emerges as a statistical inevitability in high-entropy communication systems. Trillions of micro-interactions cascade through socialmedia daily, drifting toward (those) system attractors that recursively reinforce themselves. Complexity collapses into maximally transmissible, low-dimensional projections.
The phenomenon of societal ‘dumbing down’ is undeniable. While terms like “uninformed” or “disengaged” may seem too blunt, there is a notable drift – both culturally and intellectually – towards a collective state that is increasingly indifferent, uninspired, and detached from genuine engagement with one another. And yet, this shift is layered beneath a polished […]
We are bound by physics as much as by logic to serially and partially approximate to the center of a representational and/or referential, relational network and distribution. An unexamined enigma: this approximation to a systemic, semiotic or otherwise communicative barycenter is an expression of the principle of Least Action, in the relational dynamics of information […]
To reframe the Lagrangian in terms of deeper exploration of least action, entropy, and logical incompleteness, we begin by shifting the focus from the traditional mechanical interpretation of least action—the path that minimises energy expenditure—to a broader, more ontological interpretation. Here, the least action becomes an approximation towards a kind of dynamic equilibrium, not merely […]
Signal to noise? The primary signal is noise. Most of the partisan #insecurity and frictive #political tribalism we are currently experiencing represents convergence towards the regenerative bonding and binding turbulence of high probability, low-energy system macrostates. (Gossip? Tabloid news? Best Practice? Doctrine? Belief? Ideology? Ethics? The underlying dynamics are considerably less flattering or reassuring than […]
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