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culture

Spontaneous Savant ?

Spontaneous savant syndrome…

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culture

Revolutionary Fallacy ?

Sic semper tyrannis…

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culture

Cultural Systems and Useful Entropy

Even apparently useless phenomena usually have an implicit purpose or reason to exist. It just requires a little lateral thought to untangle the complexity a little…

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culture

Political Kindergarten

A chaotic world undergoing constant and accelerating metamorphosis requires keen intellect and insight to navigate, not the kindergarten chaos we most commonly observe…

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culture Organisation

Seeking Solutions to Organisational Entropy

On competition versus cooperation…

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culture

S.O.S: Global Political Failures

No one is coming to save us from ourselves, it looks like we’ll need to work through this together…

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Philosophy

Complex Systems: Life, Intelligence and a Logical Wormhole

Systems continuity and the emergence of useful, creative complexity harnesses the implicit and constitutive logical discontinuity of a holistic systems theory in mischievous ways…

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culture

Relative Intelligence

I’m not entirely confident in the marketing, PR and hype surrounding the notional “Intelligence” characterised in emerging contemporary applications and technologies. The kinds of sophistication and mental processing (on a spectrum towards consciousness and self-awareness) constitutive of authentic intelligence appears to be anything other than what is being achieved by these narrowly defined intelligent machines […]