The search for a foundational logic and operating principle of existence leads through philosophy, mathematics and probability to unexpected insight: the unifying property is its own absence.
How do distinguishable things arise and persist when everything constituting them is changing? An introduction to the relational mathematics of Applied Field Logic.
If mathematical structures arise through relational transformation, their topology, algebra and conditions of intelligibility must themselves be part of the dynamics they describe.
The distinction between a system and its surroundings arises through the relationships that constitute both.
Many years exploring the relationships underlying existence have taught me that understanding requires no permission. Life is short, and eternity remains indifferent to worldy vanity.
We mistake the brain for the seat of intelligence and the individual for its owner. Both depend upon a much larger system.
Language does more than convey meaning. Its recursive rhythms reproduce belief, conflict and the conditions through which societies persist.
We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.
Peace is not merely difficult. We have built institutions, identities, economies and languages whose coherence depends upon the persistence of conflict.
Reality persists because nothing (and only nothing!) ever fully coincides with itself.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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