Things do not exist first and then form relationships. They emerge through relationships that sustain them. Identity, time and existence arise from differences that can never be completely resolved.
Tag: identity
From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.
Formal logic works with identities and distinctions. Understanding complex systems requires explaining how both emerge and persist through the relations that sustain them.
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Yes, We’re All Individuals
Why institutions, political movements and intellectual communities reproduce the same patterns of identity, conformity and exclusion while insisting on their differences.
Desire and fear appear to pull us in opposite directions, but both persist through the distance they seek to overcome.
When religious language does more work for political identity than religious ethics do for moral conduct, God becomes useful in ways we should all probably question.
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Persistence of Reality
Reality persists because nothing (and only nothing!) ever fully coincides with itself.
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WTF
We keep telling the same stories in different ways. The faces, crises and characters change. The same tribal pattern keeps finding new forms.
A home is not simply somewhere a person lives. It is somewhere from which a life can continue.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
