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Philosophy

Before Aristotle: The Making of Identity

Formal logic works with identities and distinctions. Understanding complex systems requires explaining how both emerge and persist through the relations that sustain them.

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Philosophy

The Logic that Lives

Life is organised difference sustained through recursive probabilistic and spectral dynamics.

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Philosophy

The Big Empty: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Generative Logic of Absence

Absence is not the opposite of existence, but the generative condition through which difference, organisation, consciousness and cosmos emerge and persist.

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Philosophy

Or

Ask a logician an “or” question and you may get the most annoying correct answer in existence: yes.

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cybernetics

[00] Disinformation Dynamics: Introduction to the Handbook

00-DD

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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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cybernetics

recursion, technically

Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference by which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.

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Philosophy

Applied Field Logic: Mathematical Foundations

Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.

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cybernetics

Wiener–Khinchin theorem

The Wiener–Khinchin theorem describes a quiet inevitability: when a system repeats itself, even imperfectly, that repetition condenses into structure. Time leaves a trace. Signals that return, echo, or correlate with their own past do not merely accumulate; they reorganise into a spectrum, a distribution of emphasis and weight. What looks like flux from within time […]

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Philosophy

Truth in Language

What is truth. The moment we ask the question, we are already inside language, and everything that follows unfolds from that fact. Truth is not something we approach from outside, as a detached observer might inspect an object. It arises within sequences of tokens, within the games we play with them, within the structures we […]

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cybernetics

Effective Writing with Language Models

This is not about asking a model to generate ideas for you. It is about placing your own thinking into a responsive medium so it can be worked. You bring partial arguments, intuitions, constraints, and unresolved tensions. The model reflects them back through selective amplification: adjacent phrasings, shifts in emphasis, alternative structures. That amplification makes […]

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Philosophy

The Infinite

The infinite is an idea we return to not because it resolves questions, but because it resists resolution. We surround it with language, belief, argument, and ritual, attempting to stabilise what cannot be fixed. There are no receipts for the purchase. Any infinity exceeds its description, regardless of how carefully the conceptual scaffolding is constructed. […]