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 […]
What, exactly, does excruciatingly monocultural generative content tell us? While satire and parody acquire significance as a function of their grounding in the consensus reality of whichever time and place they reflect, and given that sum combinatorial complexity of interdependent cultural systems is incommensurable with any bounding measures or methods and “intelligent” machines we currently […]
Context: AI-Enabled Electromagnetic Warfare Systems On a general assumption that algorithmic complexity is primarily a transduction of mechanised conceptual logic into alternate (if perhaps inevitable) dimensions, vectored mathematical invocations and expressions of technical entropy; and, given that recursive self-entanglement is both a cause and consequence of intractable systemic (i.e. logical) incompleteness and material uncertainty, this […]
For a system to persistently self-sustain, it has to negotiate and/or “exhale” its own waste products as entropy. Generating waste that is reusable by something or someone else is all but ubiquitous in biology. Human systems (and consequences, in a scaled, industrial and technological sense) might be uniquely distinguished by the volume, diversity and cadence […]
Institutional continuity (and all that follows) is reciprocally self-defined through assertions of regulatory control, surveillance, power and – yes – strategy; an interface and communications bridge or feedback loop of some sort forms and self-sustains in this way. This mirrors many a parochial epistemology, but – is the control system and model as adaptive as […]
Spirituality more broadly seems to have been seduced by a personality cult that opportunistically misrepresents and all too easily misunderstands messenger and signal as isomorphic with message, quite agnostic of the significance of any particular narrative. This is an elementary projective narcissism, identifying individual with an essentially inarticulable metaphysics of Other and world that is […]
Notice: this hybrid constellation of symbols, narratives, and competitive idioms is the central band and “strange attractor” of a probability distribution we might otherwise recognise or identify under some definition of entropy. In a complex system, the paths that emerge and persist are those that reproduce and sustain their environmental containers, contexts, and communication systems. […]
Ageing is our embodied experience of entropy. In itself, it is neither good nor bad – it just is. The countless ways that things decay or almost wilfully disassemble – they tend on average to be costly and unpleasant experiences but there is a flip side to the story. This darker anomaly and compound mystery […]
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