Spectral Coupling and the Frequency Control Plane of Meaning Most attempts to fix broken communication start at the surface of words. They try to add more facts, more corrections, more explanation. The deeper lever sits underneath the words. It sits in time. Meaning stabilizes when patterns repeat, align, and reinforce one another. That alignment is […]
Studying machine learning now looks less like a steady ascent and more like an asymptotic orbital reference frame perennially caught in and constrained between attraction and repulsion. The desire is centripetal, a pull towards the imagined centre of mastery and promise, but the structure itself functions centrifugally, casting people back out, denying arrival. The gap […]
Academia abhors cleverness—but only the kinds that don’t reproduce its current coinage of acceptable thought. What gets protected is the signalling, not the insight. Language becomes currency; cleverness that fails to replicate the prevailing mintage of disciplinary and political vocabulary is filtered out. It’s not conscious—most of the time, it’s reflex. The institution doesn’t select […]
In topology, the concept of cobordism describes a seemingly simple idea: when two shapes can be seen as the boundary of a single, higher-dimensional surface, they are connected—not just spatially, but structurally. For instance, two separate circles may both sit on the edge of a cylinder. The circles are 1-dimensional, the cylinder is 2-dimensional, and […]
Do not bring in celebrity CEOs or tech demigods expecting salvation. Their job is to extract value, convert resilience into quarterly numbers, and then leave before the smoke clears. The cycle is predictable: hype, short-term metrics, collapse. The organization becomes a ladder, not a habitat. Transformation isn’t about flashy interventions or heroic (ie human, organisational) […]
Meaning doesn’t sit where we point. It isn’t a property of the word, or the sentence, or the speaker. It’s not carried like cargo between minds. It doesn’t wait patiently in a paragraph for someone to open it and look inside. The moment you try to hold it, it moves. The moment you declare it, […]
Satori is a sudden flash of awareness in Zen—when the mind drops its search and reality hits all at once. It’s not gradual learning; it’s rupture. A system encountering what it can’t compute. Like the halting problem, it marks the point where cognition can’t tell if it should continue, yet cannot stop. Gödel’s incompleteness hums […]
Autocracy dreams of control but wakes, always, in its own nightmare. Power, once seized, begins to rot—from the inside. What presents as strategic certainty is a pathology of recursive insecurity: a system at war with itself, flailing outward to avoid inward collapse. Imperialism, in this light, isn’t expansion. It’s displacement. Displacement of fear, of internal […]
Fear to speak our mind tends to stifle and suffocate good ideas and give bad ideas and wilful ignorance free rein. It is also worth mentioning that bad ideas have an unfortunate tendency to self-replicate much faster than good ones. The only real solace here being that when there are many bad ideas in play, […]
Recently reading of airborne multiple-drone systems that, being once (and unsuccessfully) modelled on insect swarms, are now being modelled on wolf-pack behaviour, it got me thinking. Biomimetic systems are powerful but I do wonder if and when the analogies that compel them might at times become inadvertently inhibitory. Logic and technological (as much as biological) […]
I believe it was Paul Verlaine who once opined that “l’application c’est le plupart de l’intelligence” but without struggle, without the broken, breaking symmetries and dissociative, alienating furnace of experience and entropy, nothing is learned, nothing is gained and intelligence (as much as life) uselessly dissipates into all oblivion and forgetting. What, then, to say […]
Sufficiently sophisticated insights into the function and structure of this world are effectively indistinguishable from insanity. In this regard, a profoundly delusional mind is as often aligned with genius as it is with utter absurdity. Questions we might ask here are as to the profound and natural orientation of extreme creativity towards alienation and isolation. […]
Daedelus Kite 