Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.
Tag: evolution
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Rethinking Conflict
Coming conflicts will be won by those who can most effectively, efficiently, continuously and adaptively rebuild themselves and their ways of life through successful negotiation and engagement with the recombinatory logical evolution of information and energy from which biology, humanity, technology and civilisation have emerged.
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No One Owns Truth
There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.
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Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time.
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Understanding Innovation
What is a significant innovation? What are the most algorithmically concise paths in any recombinatory possibility-space between significant innovations?
The non-linear cognitive flexibility and diverse conceptual vocabulary required to describe the complex problem-space of environmental and ecological complexity is also the heuristic practise with which we might seek to successfully address it.
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The Purpose of Stupid Ideas
Does human stupidity actually serve a sociological purpose ?
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The Uncertainty Zeitgeist
Substantive, meaningful content in our shared information spaces is suffering from an information-systems evolutionary selection mechanism that is implicitly biased towards continuity over coherence.
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The Self-Replicating Logic of Life
Life is notoriously difficult to pin down and unambiguously define.
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Information Conflict may overwhelm us
When information and communications systems become massively autonomous, will we be able to react to the unfolding events in any competitive information and communications space?
Systems-theoretical analyses of human conflict suggest that it may be an inevitable error or fault in the self-replication of those complex patterns of information and energy that we recognise as society, technology and historical metamorphosis.
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Improbable Insights
What we require most critically is insight and effective methods for sharing valuable information with other minds. This is quite probably the most difficult communication task with which to successfully engage.
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