Tag: information theory

The Geometry of the Unconscious

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Post date Jan 29, 2026
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The unconscious is not a hidden chamber beneath awareness, nor a secondary mind running in parallel. It is the emergent interior of dynamical, adaptive, relational complexity itself. It is what complex systems feel like from the inside. Any system capable of learning, anticipation, coordination, and self-regulation must generate internal structure that cannot be fully present […]

Tags adaptive intelligence, autopoiesis, cognitive science theory, complex adaptive systems, complex systems theory, complexity and meaning, complexity science, consciousness and complexity, consciousness studies, cybernetic philosophy, cybernetics, distributed cognition, dynamical systems, emergence, emergent intelligence, Epistemology, field logic, high-level theoretical systems philosophy of mind, holistic systems, information theory, logical incompleteness, metaphysics, nonlinear-dynamics, Ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of complexity, philosophy of mind, philosophy-of-systems, process philosophy, recursive systems, relational complexity, relational ontology, second-order cybernetics, self-organisation, systems ontology, systems philosophy, systems thinking, theoretical neuroscience, topological philosophy, unconscious mind

Philosophy

Theory of Language and Communication

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Post date Jan 25, 2026
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Formal Abstract This document presents a formal, process-based theory of language, information, and dynamic meaning systems. Communication, cognition, identity, legitimacy, and truth are treated not as static entities but as temporally constituted processes sustained through repetition, coupling, and feedback within distributed fields. A minimal axiom set grounded in acts, timing, coupling, recursion, variation, and emergent […]

Tags adaptive-systems, algorithmic systems, applied cybernetics, artificial intelligence and communication, cognitive systems, communication ecology, communication systems, communication theory, complex systems, complexity philosophy, control theory, coupling dynamics, cultural dynamics, cultural systems, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, disinformation theory, distributed cognition, dynamic meaning, emergence, emergent order, entropy and variation, epistemic systems, Epistemology, feedback systems, field theory of meaning, formal systems theory, general theory of language, Global Systems, governance systems, identity systems, information systems, information theory, institutional systems, legitimacy dynamics, meaning systems, meaning-formation, media ecology, network dynamics, nonlinear-dynamics, Ontology, phase dynamics, philosophy of information, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, political communication, political economy of information, process ontology, recursion, reflexive governance, resilience theory, semantics, social cybernetics, social systems, structural dynamics, system coherence, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems design, systems intelligence, systems modelling, systems theory, technological mediation, temporal systems, theoretical cybernetics, truth and legitimacy, unified systems framework

Philosophy

Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

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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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Populism

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Post date Jan 6, 2026
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What we are dealing with is not primarily a moral or semantic crisis, even though it is experienced that way. Planetary-scale communication systems behave like physical systems with dense feedback and high throughput: they develop statistical biases toward states that reproduce the conditions of their own continuation. These systems have ontic reality—that is, they are […]

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Governance as Harmonic Coordination

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Post date Dec 18, 2025
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Governance can be understood as the management of phase relations within an ensemble, not the enforcement of uniform behaviour. In any governed system—social, institutional, technical, or ecological—coherence does not arise from fixing positions or eliminating difference. It arises from partial synchronisation: agents align enough to act collectively while remaining out of phase enough to retain […]

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

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Post date Aug 16, 2025
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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 […]

Psychology

The Implicit Psychological Entropy of Social Media

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Post date May 5, 2019
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Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.

Alien Anthropology

Online Success and (its) Information Famine

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Post date Mar 18, 2019
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Integrated and distributed information and energy processing systems are biased by physical principles towards the minimisation of uncertainty.

Tags culture, entropy, information theory, insight, narrative, Psychology

Philosophy

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.

Tags AI, algorithm, algorithmic information theory, Artificial Intelligence, axiom, big data, incompleteness, information, information theory, Kurt Gödel, logic, Machine Learning, paradigm, Science, self-replication, shockwave, systems, teleology, truth