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Philosophy

śūnyatā and the generative logic of absence

Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.

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Philosophy Psychology

why you can never fully know yourself

The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.

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Philosophy

selected essays: systems, communication and contemporary life

Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.

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cybernetics

the good, the bad and the ugly of political communication

The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.

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cybernetics

parenting, adolescence and the organisation of difference

Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.

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Philosophy

how AI accelerates the evolution of language

AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.

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cybernetics

simple, simpler, simplistic

The persistence of populist political narratives as a function of transmissibility explains how and why verifiable truth becomes secondary in public debate.

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cybernetics

towards a transfinite geometry of communication and control

Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.

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cybernetics

towards a continuity theorem

Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.

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Philosophy

before continuity

Nothing (and only nothing!) persists by remaining complete. Continuity emerges because every organised system must keep rebuilding the conditions of its own existence.

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cybernetics

a theory of differential communication

Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.

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cybernetics

conflict, coherence, and the logic of recurrence

What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.