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cybernetics

Addicted to Technology?

Technology operates as an engine of sociotechnical addiction not only because of the dopamine loops it inhabits but because of the recursive deficit embedded in every function it provides. Each convenience extracts slightly more than it gives back, yet disguises this loss through displacement: the cost is shifted outward, onto others, into the future, or […]

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cybernetics

Entropic Deferral: Lossy Signals

To understand ourselves as primarily here to produce waste is to face the unsettling fact that our bodies and systems are throughput machines. What we consume is less important than the transformation that occurs in the middle, where emergent rules of metabolism, language, and culture operate. Output is not accidental but constitutive: waste is not […]

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cybernetics

Oxygen Stories

Based on the literature, there’s a deep link between speech, breathing, and cognitive processes. Speech breathing is distinct from resting breath: it involves shorter inhalations and longer, controlled exhalations to maintain continuous vocalization and support extended, cohesive thought (McFarland, 2001; Conrad & Schönle, 1979). The control of breath during speech can influence oxygen flow to […]

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Philosophy

Explaining Consciousness

Context: Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? A common error is that we assert consciousness as an instance, the artefact of a fractal (in this context), and the narrow end of aspirations to explanatory closure and teleology more native to language than to information, matter, energy or natural computation. It is not the artefact […]

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Philosophy

Decoded

As much as DNA encodes information abstractions that become concrete instances expressed through phenotypes, as an information system it also represents something of an inverse mapping of the environmental context in which that phenotype provides adaptive leverage. This indicates a continuous and unbroken, singular or unified information system. We tend to think in terms of […]