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Information Entropy: Countering Propaganda

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Post date Aug 24, 2019
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Falsity carries less information, less entropy and consequently travels more efficiently through a transmission medium.

Tags communication, entropy, Fake News, influence, information, logic, misinformation, persuasion, propaganda, truth

Decoding Instagram

The ancient emergence of information-encoding mechanisms that seek both optimal self-replication and resilience against catastrophic loss of components and sub-systems – in contemporary manifestation.

Tags cognition, culture, encode, encrypt, holograph, holographic storage, images, information, instagram, logic, Psychology, redundancy, resilience, social media, subjectivity

Philosophy

Ideology and Belief as Self-Propagating Information Pattern

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Post date Aug 20, 2019
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The entropy of difference provides discrete patterns of information and thought with the energy, complexity and momentum they require to self-propagate.

Tags belief, continuity, culture, enigma, entropy, faith, ideology, information, intelligence, logic, Psychology, recursion, self-propagation, truth

culture Philosophy

Culture and Mind: Surface, Depth, Continuum

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Post date Aug 19, 2019
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Culture is the logical inversion of the human mind.

Tags Complexity, continuum, culture, Dualism, emergence, entropy, holism, information, inversion, logic, Ontology, Philosophy, Popular Culture, Psychology, topology

communication culture Philosophy

Ex Nihilo

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Post date Aug 19, 2019
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Only nothing comes from nothing and only nothing is effortlessly produced…

Tags communication, conceptual vocabulary, emptiness, grammar, information, logic, meaning, meaningless, mind, nothing, recursion, syntax, thought, vocabulary, words, writing, zen

Philosophy

Bread Crumbs

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Post date Aug 17, 2019
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Going with the flow of natural law and optimally-concise emergent complexity proves to be an intractable enigma for the collective geopolitical neurotic atavism of our world.

Tags border wall, catastrophe, climate change, Complexity, conflict, diplomacy, entropy, ignorance, information, insecurity, intelligence, logic

technology

Cyber Insecurity: Endless Breaches

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Post date Aug 16, 2019
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Context: New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report There is an enigma here, far beyond the rank foolishness of keeping vast quantities of such sensitive data in an unencrypted format (see the linked article), there is a deeper problem. The more valuable any data is, the more incentive there […]

Tags biometric, breach, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, entropy, information, logic, mathematics, Organisation, organization, physics, systems, theft

Alien Anthropology

The Metaphysics of Climate Change

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Post date Aug 13, 2019
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There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.

Tags catastrophe, civilisation, civilization, climate, climate change, emptiness, entropy, information, life, logic, Peace, planetary civilisation, Psychology, self, war

Philosophy physics Science

Simulating the Cosmos

Simulating the Universe to approximate to an understanding of galactic evolution.

Tags cosmos, entropy, evolution, galaxy, information, logic, physics, simulation, Universe

Alien Anthropology Philosophy

Playing the Long-Game of Human Civilisation

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Post date Aug 11, 2019
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The catastrophic entropy of a currently most-probable future is not the only available solution in the possibility-space of all emergent and adaptive human planetary civilisations.