If you listen very carefully you can almost hear a faint whooshing sound as the vacuum created in the wake of the products of our own creative intelligence, which having long ago outpaced us, draws us inexorably along behind it. As the accelerating juggernaut of pure and abstract technological metamorphosis has always – and perhaps […]
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While we are able to cultivate semi-autonomous technical solutions that provide insight into material records of communication and – through them – a historical sedimentation of the self-replicating complexities of culture and cognition in information-encoding logic (as language), we seem a little less able to apply those same technical solutions to untangle the challenges represented […]
A core human psychological trait of small-scale tribal herding may work against the kind of global organisational unity and cooperation required to cultivate substantive industrial and economic change in the limited time still available to us.
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Improbable Insights
What we require most critically is insight and effective methods for sharing valuable information with other minds. This is quite probably the most difficult communication task with which to successfully engage.
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Living through Language
Do we live through words or do words live through us ?
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Logic: Blind-spots and Bootstraps
Exploded-view models of mechanical systems approximate to logical analysis in ways that similar disassembly of organically complex and integrated materially complex systems do not.
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Out of Context
Taken out of context (or explicit authorial intent), anything can appear (or be construed as) false.
The influence of popular communications and media is an effect measured by the relative simplicity of the associated communication method.
Self-propagating linguistic methods, full of culturally recursive sound and fury; signifying nothing…
The normative is always also the reproduction of the culturally self-reproductive and useful; the mundane carelessly shrouds the profound and transparently un-hidden secret of cultural, logical self-replication.
The act of writing is the creation of the concept and idea, the production of a thought in stored form as potential energy…
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Circular
“…human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition…:
Daedelus Kite 