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Philosophy

Existential Pragmatics and Emergence

There are, in general, two main ways to understand a complex system-of-systems. First, as an adaptive constellation of modularly decomposable artefacts, entities and sub-systems as subject to and expressions of orchestration and directed purpose – that is, in terms of its differentiated parts and their relationships. Later, as a bonded, binding proxy organism in which […]

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technology

Seamless Integration

Context: New Biosensors Allow Earbuds To Record Brain Activity and Exercise Levels This is all moving inexorably towards and through a world in which omnipresent interfaces to human bodies (and brains) so seamlessly merge surveillance and digital entertainment as information encoding, decoding and transmission, that not only does the functional dichotomy of “for me” and […]

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Futurism

Technological Adaptation

Generalised conceptual prediction: we will soon enough observe polymorphism and adaptive metamorphosis in many abstract, material, embedded and even everyday, consumer systems.