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Philosophy

Belief as Harmonic Structure

Belief is harmonic structure: the recurrent pattern of timing, relation and probability through which language, meaning and experience take form.

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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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language

Semantics Follows Frequency: Why Meaning Repeats and History Rhymes

Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.

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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

harmonic communication

Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.

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cybernetics

How Language Shapes Human Thought, Identity and Behaviour

Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.

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Philosophy

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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Philosophy

why identity is not as simple as A = A

A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.

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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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Philosophy

language

We do not simply use language. We participate in its continual reconstruction, and through that reconstruction language continually participates in ours.

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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.

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life

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.