The whole cybersecurity enterprise seems to be built upon a suite of psychological and culturally-reflexive assumptions that assert that there exists even a possibility of logical or systemic closure. No such closure or completion is possible and this is rarely acknowledged.
Unanswerable Questions: Science, God, Infinity
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1510, Vatican. Michelangelo's Divinity reaches back from an artfully-obfuscated human cranium and brain to create Adam. It is indeed at the level of (such) Universals - in which questioners become objects of their own self-introspection that we observe an endless referential circularity and recursion without end.Foundational work in logic…
UFOs: physics, logic, possibility
Some solutions to complex mysteries may not be obvious, but they still possess potential existence as artefacts of future discovery. The "Laws of Physics" as we know them may be just one (relatively) self-consistent cross-section, constellation or "slice" through the state-space of all possible optimally-concise descriptions and mathematical (or logical) entities. We should not be…
Zentropy 0
The constructive entropy of Self is a recursively self-gravitating nexus and node or focal point of patterned complexity. This Self is not your possession so - there is no justification for an individualist or ego-driven narrative. Self is not a possession of the world you inhabit -entailing that socialist agendas are similarly fallacious. The history…
Quicksilver Concepts
I appear to spend an inordinate amount of time peripatetically wandering around pondering wistful wisdoms, diverse philosophical insights and complex intuitions. Capturing or projecting mental insight and creative visualisation into written (or spoken) words is an exercise which loses a great deal in translation from the quicksilver or pure thought to the grammatical and semantic…
The March of the Immaterial Abstractions
A patterned liquid probability and abstract symmetry of information flow. The form and flow of this life and logical information space we inhabit is as much a matter of what we are not as what we are; we are manifestations and expressions of that life beyond us as much as that within. There exists a…
Biological Computation
Context: Workshop: Do living things compute? More fascinating collaboration from the Santa Fe Institute. In short and in gestalt: it all seems to invoke a form of computation that is neither particular or distributed but is both simultaneously; that is not finite or discrete in the sense of having easily-defined or simply-encapsulated boundaries; and it's…
Who Made Who?
It is an interesting thought that while we all appear to possess some degree of free will and self-determination, and beyond the intractable differences of a diversity of philosopical (and, let's face it - political) thought on the matter, much of our mental lives are shaped and patterned by the contexts that we find ourselves…
Cyber Insecurity: Endless Breaches
Context: New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report There is an enigma here, far beyond the rank foolishness of keeping vast quantities of such sensitive data in an unencrypted format (see the linked article), there is a deeper problem. The more valuable any data is, the more incentive there…
Ouroboros
The logical necessity of recursively enigmatic self-propagation remains mysterious and somehow also essential for life and sentience.
The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive - it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
On the Presence of Absence
Sometimes the most profound truths (or at the very least - facts) emerge not from what does exist, but from what does not.
