The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
Tag: language
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
00-DD
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
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language
We do not simply use language. We participate in its continual reconstruction, and through that reconstruction language continually participates in ours.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
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my neurological double-tap
Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.
Daedelus Kite 