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…:
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Aesthetics, Language, History
It only takes a few colours, a few shapes for the human mind to impose order upon otherwise patterned chaos. Visual processing largely follows its own logical rules, not unlike language, physics or mathematics. Just as with language, visual aesthetics and the logical intelligibility of any specific imagery is partially hard-wired in the brain as […]
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Communication: The Problem
The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein identified some interesting problems of language. Language is a logical system through which we communicate. Language is also that through which we very often fail to understand what is being conveyed to us, that is – it is that through which we fail to communicate clearly…
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