I appear to have made several fatal errors of judgement in attempting to decode culture, cognition, communication and complexity. The essence of comprehension and information that we attribute as rational, foundational and amenable to explanation is not encoded in such a way as to ever be fully decompressed, unpacked, structured and recorded. It has always […]
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The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.
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Visualising Reality
There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.
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An Autonomous Science ?
The unfolding patterns, exploratory revelations and emergent complexity of Artificial Intelligence may not ultimately reveal itself to be as useful to us as we (and all our aspirations) turn out to be to it.
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There is no perfect social system
Just as there may never be any isolated closure and teleological endpoint to logic, physics and mathematics – there can also never be any such thing as the “one true way” or ideological and social perfection. There are only successive approximations and iterative algorithmic refinements towards a better world, without end.
We are that living matter through which the logic of self-replication self-replicates; we are not the bearers or the beneficiaries of this process, we are the medium through which it (shockwave-like) passes.
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Constitutional Inconsistency
If you know who Kurt Gödel was and understand what a Constitution represents in regards to the logical axioms (i.e. assumptions) made in the formulation of a rules-set (i.e. legal system) and their theorems (i.e. formal legal consequences) underpinning governance and political power, you already know where this is heading…
The idea that Gödel’s logical insights might reflect deeply upon physics is fascinating…
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Self-Propagation
Explanation from within the notional bounds of any holistic systems theory at some level of abstraction must always represent an iterative sub-component and subject of its own process of introspective and explanatory or conceptual self-inspection…
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Disentangling Doctor Who
Spoilers: Doctor Who unwittingly generates all of the anomalies and enigmas he appears to stumble across…
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Zero-Sum Games
There may be more-or-less hard-wired psychological reasons why we are unable to successfully navigate our shared problem-spaces…
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