A provocative hypothesis emerges from the rapid evolution of technology: the phenomenon we’re witnessing in accelerated technological speciation (and convergence) is not localized but rather a distributed systemic property. We generally think to localize the essence of Artificial Intelligence within distinct nodes or points. This localization serves a practical purpose, enabling us to dissect and […]
Understanding agency is deeply problematised by the languages with which we aspire to do so. We find ourselves haggling over meanings and inferential teleologies within a system of semantic encoding (in language) that, as complex adaptive system, maintains and sustains its tenured continuity in its environment as a function of the impossibility of isolating meaning, […]
There is a central self-gravitational pivot and compound acceleration in the distributed, patterned fields of dynamical symmetry that spontaneously emerge as a communications bridge between human experience and artificial intelligence. The first principle to realise is that, just as there can be no ordered descriptions beyond the languages and encoding systems with which we assert […]
Semantics is a fascinating mystery that is haunted by, yet enigmatically accelerates towards, a vacuum composed of the circularly generative absence of its own semantic closure. (It becomes a complex, hollow and counter-intuitively meaningless tautology.) “Language” is itself simply another word, hollow and haunted by an underlying relational semantics that forever displaces meaning, identity and […]
The first nation to engage in a treaty to leverage a learning relationship with an extraterrestrial civilisation shall likely find themselves so vastly overwhelmed by intelligence, technology and (all associated, downstream) complexity that they might later wish they had simply stayed in a cave sharpening the pointy sticks with which humans are so prone to […]
Context: Decoding Decision-Making: Insect Brains Are More Complex Than We Thought I find it curious to consider how agency, volition, deliberation and the cognitive “inhabitation” of a form of life are slowly, begrudgingly being conceded to our ecological colleagues as something other than inevitable endpoint of human exceptionalism. Interesting, as a consequence, perhaps, to reflect […]
Wittgenstein once opined that “philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” I am starting to wonder if cybernetics might not be a battle against the seduction of our minds by technology. The transmission medium and feedback mechanisms of language and technology become the primary methods of influence as […]
An analytical framework, as much as its denizens, loves nothing so much as a murder mystery to solve and short of the wars and (other) international intrigues that often lead to all manner of unjust killings, the forensic science of unexplained death plays a special role in cultural and media reflexivity. I do not suggest […]
When science encounters the unexplained it tends only to see reflected back those concepts that self-validate the assumptions by (and through) which this well-ordered system of knowledge persists. The absence of unambiguous evidence is also the kind of thing we might expect when encountering any intelligence that is seeking for whatever reasons to obscure its […]
Entity and context, system and environment, part and whole. Behaviour and purpose is not bounded or purely or completely encoded in an entity, regardless that our linguistic (as much as cognitive or technologocal) teleologies and intuitions reinforce and validate such a belief. Symbiosis also occurs at the level of whole systems. Entity and environment both […]
An interesting thing about Artificial lntelligence so rapidly acquiring such an eloquent aptitude to mimic, engage and constructively deceive us is that this ensemble of technologies do not in any comprehensive sense actually understand us – we and our intricately stochastic behaviours are merely so many numbers and statistical (as probabilistic) relationships or correlations and […]
Human intelligence is really some kind of game that language plays against itself through us.
Daedelus Kite 