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cybernetics Philosophy

Toxic Wealth

Extreme wealth is not just a larger version of ordinary success. Beyond a certain point, it becomes a structural feature of the systems that organise society itself. Modern civilisation runs on coordination: finance, law, technology, logistics, media, administration. These systems manage complexity by translating the world into symbols — money, data, metrics, legal categories. They […]

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cybernetics

Algorithmic Feedback Homogenises Behaviour

Algorithmic feedback homogenises behaviour. Through recursive repetition, systems compress difference, rewarding only what performs commercially—what can be predicted, packaged, and sold. The loop amplifies its own reflection, turning attention into product and behaviour into data. What begins as a measure of preference becomes its manufacture. Mathematical convergence underwrites the machinery: efficiency as faith, entropy as […]

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cybernetics

The Mirage of AI Wealth

Artificial intelligence is widely proclaimed as a generator of new wealth. The suggestion is that models trained on large datasets, coupled with computational scale, will deliver prosperity by sheer force of information processing. Yet this claim collapses under even modest scrutiny. Wealth cannot be summoned into being by wordplay, nor does it arise automatically from […]

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cybernetics

Bureaucracy’s Incentive to Fail

Government services fail not only because of underfunding, incompetence, or political neglect. They fail because of a structural dynamic baked into the way bureaucracies sustain themselves. Take social support systems. The stated function is simple: provide assistance to people who’ve lost their jobs until they can find another. But the actual functioning diverges. The machinery […]

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Philosophy

Cybernetic Interdiction: Social Media

Spectral Coupling and the Frequency Control Plane of Meaning Most attempts to fix broken communication start at the surface of words. They try to add more facts, more corrections, more explanation. The deeper lever sits underneath the words. It sits in time. Meaning stabilizes when patterns repeat, align, and reinforce one another. That alignment is […]

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cybernetics

Frequencies as the Basis of Social Processes

An interesting hypothesis is that all social processes are expressions of frequency. While not strictly equivalent, frequencies can be understood as empirical expressions of probability—patterns of recurrence that approximate likelihood over time. In doing so, they engage with dynamical attractors, stabilising tendencies within complex systems that draw trajectories into patterned coherence. The very process of […]

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cybernetics

Entropic Deferral: Lossy Signals

To understand ourselves as primarily here to produce waste is to face the unsettling fact that our bodies and systems are throughput machines. What we consume is less important than the transformation that occurs in the middle, where emergent rules of metabolism, language, and culture operate. Output is not accidental but constitutive: waste is not […]

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cybernetics

Recursive Tension: Orbit Frame, Logical Orbit, and the Viability of Communication, Culture, and Ecological Systems

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 […]

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cybernetics

Prohibition Fail: Illicit Tobacco in Australia

Attempts to prohibit are not failures of intelligence but failures of systemic insight. The logic is recursive: the more force applied to negate a behaviour, the more structure is built around that behaviour to preserve it. Prohibition becomes a generator — not a suppressor — of the phenomenon it targets. The system does not respond […]

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cybernetics

Oxygen Stories

Based on the literature, there’s a deep link between speech, breathing, and cognitive processes. Speech breathing is distinct from resting breath: it involves shorter inhalations and longer, controlled exhalations to maintain continuous vocalization and support extended, cohesive thought (McFarland, 2001; Conrad & Schönle, 1979). The control of breath during speech can influence oxygen flow to […]

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cybernetics

Peripatetic Barycenter

If a barycenter wobbles and pirouettes around a “most probable” path or central band of statistical measurement(s), and if observed/calculated planetary and solar dynamics are a function of this mercurial relativistic particularity as it wanders across & through the galactic plane with c. 30M year driving frequency, what are the resonant properties of this system? […]

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communication

Communication Complexity

Language and its corollary of narrative communication finds itself quite poorly-fit for engaging with anything other than the products and assumptions of language, as rich and diverse as they may ultimately be. This is a primary method of communication system self-replication through indefinitely extensible introspective self-reference. We don’t often notice this because we are all […]