Why Deception Is Irreducible in Communication
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The Essence of Language
Language, like all communication systems, holds together not despite displacement, delay and uncertainty, but because of them.
Counter-disinformation has a structural problem: engaging a message often helps keep it alive. While this is generally unsurprising dynamical behaviour, it remains widely misunderstood.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.
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the conspicuous absence in science
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
Change the timing and you change the structure. Communication is not merely the transfer of information through a network but the propagation of signals through media of different densities, delays, and constraints. Small temporal modulations accumulate. Phase shifts become interference patterns. Interference becomes organisation.
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