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cybernetics

What Does Education Do?

Education stabilises knowledge long enough to transmit it, even as the machinery through which knowledge is produced and interpreted accelerates the movement of the epistemic attractor itself.

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cybernetics

pay the piper: hidden tariff

Every system sends the bill somewhere else until there’s nowhere left to send it.

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cybernetics

influence this: the probabilistic frequency structure of communication

Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.