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self

Post author By G
Post date Jan 28, 2026
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The self never settles because the world never settles. Your body changes. Neural chemistry fluctuates. Memory edits itself. Relationships move. Context rearranges. Words drift. Culture turns. New facts arrive, old certainties decay, and the feedback never stops. So the self is not rewritten because it is faulty, but because it is embedded in conditions that […]

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Cybernetics: Good Intentions, Bad Vibes

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Post date Jan 27, 2026
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The language of the school was expansive: culture, power, technology, ethics, ecology, gender, indigeneity, diversity, human experience, systems, responsibility, complexity. It spoke fluently about uncertainty, fragility, and care. It marketed itself as a space for deep reflection on and constructive engagement with how technological systems were and are reshaping civilisation. But in one all-staff meeting, […]

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Living Inside Language

We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]

Tags abstraction, abstraction drift, adaptability, administrative rationality, algorithmic decision making, ambiguity tolerance, artificial intelligence limits, automation and society, bureaucratic systems, categorisation, cognitive science, communication systems, complexity science, consciousness studies, control systems, cultural systems, cybernetics, data driven systems, decision infrastructures, distributed intelligence, efficiency logic, embodied cognition, emergence, epistemic humility, Epistemology, ethical technology, everyday philosophy, extended mind, feedback loops, formalisation, generative systems, governance systems, human centred systems, human cognition, human experience, humane design, information theory, institutional design, instrumental rationality, intelligence as field, interface thinking, language and reality, language technologies, loss of context, machine learning critique, managerial logic, meaning making, metrics and meaning, modern rationalism, Ontology, organisational behaviour, perception and reality, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, popular philosophy, power and knowledge, predictive systems, procedural reasoning, provisional knowledge, public understanding of complexity, resilience, responsibility and agency, rule based systems, science communication, sensemaking, social complexity, social systems, standardisation, symbolic systems, system optimisation, systems theory, systems thinking, technocracy, technological mediation, translation across domains, uncertainty

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Compassion

Post author By G
Post date Dec 19, 2025
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Life is difficult for everyone, in different ways, at different times. We exist as partially individuated selves, each with a limited point of view, shaped by desire, belief, hope, and fear, often without reflection. Language gives form to this condition, allowing meaning to emerge while also carrying the weight of suffering. To be a self […]

Tags awareness, Buddhist philosophy, compassion, consciousness, desire and suffering, existential reflection, human experience, inner life, language and meaning, loneliness and connection, psychology of self, relational being