Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
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harmonic communication
Tag: language
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.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
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language as harmonic structure
Meaning is not stored in words; it emerges as harmonic structure through time.
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the conspicuous absence in science
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
At precisely the moment technology allowed us to express our own thoughts with unprecedented speed, ease, and fluency, people began switching off from the flood of language-model-mediated self-expression that followed.
