Intuitions are the common solutions or theorems of our everyday life. Going with a "gut feeling" is, however, very likely unrelated to the complex of neurons that actually exist in your gut. It is perhaps more of an insight into the patterns and symmetries of information and energy within (and as) which we exist. An…
Organisational Inertia
Entrenched resistance to mature and well-informed organisational metamorphosis and (useful) new ideas is simultaneously: a concise characterisation of (the) fear of novelty, difference and change; the essential pattern and shape of (pretty much every historical instance of) organisational, political and ideological pathology; a reflection of core psychological symmetries and reflexive boundaries through which self- (or…
Philosophy of Creative Writing: Say What You Mean
There is a filter and limit imposed on thought by language and its associated cognitive grammars. The burbling brooks of pure energy and sentient quicksilver in my mind are always just out of reach. Every beautiful concept fades back into the buzz and entropy of ideas and information or energy much faster than I can…
A Science of Entropy: Anger, Bureaucracy and Systemic Self-Propagation
Complexity is a lot smarter than we are - all of our ratiobal interdictions into behavioural and sociological problems tend to amplify by displacement those problems.
Self-Knowledge of Nature
We are sentient nature.
Disassembling Sentience: Distributed Multidimensional Computation
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
CRISPR Wars: The Inevitability of Technological Entropy ?
The great enigma of scientific and technological progress: for every great leap forwards there exists a concurrent potential for even greater (catastrophic) leaps backwards.
Online Success and (its) Information Famine
Integrated and distributed information and energy processing systems are biased by physical principles towards the minimisation of uncertainty.
Logical Insight into Living Systems
Subjecting our concepts of self and world to radical reconfiguration and a creative recombinatory metamorphosis is a certain path to cultivating insight, innovation and discovery.
Improbable Insights
What we require most critically is insight and effective methods for sharing valuable information with other minds. This is quite probably the most difficult communication task with which to successfully engage.
Artificial Intelligence: Simulating a “Theory of Mind”
What does an attempt to generate an artificially intelligent Theory of Mind (of the existence of intentions, experiences and inference of probable future actions) in other entities reveal about our own existential circumstances and the fundamental uncertainties of our own experience ?
On Autopilot
Having successfully equipped myself with precisely the wrong set of mental tools and concepts to survive in this particular hyper-commercial and aggressively competitive world...
