We built machines to finish our sentences. Now they are helping us finish the world.
Tag: meaning
We do not simply hear songs, speech and culture. Their repetition teaches us how to hear what comes next, while every new encounter quietly changes the pattern that taught us.
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.
Why Deception Is Irreducible in Communication
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The Essence of Language
Language, like all communication systems, holds together not despite displacement, delay and uncertainty, but because of them.
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Belief as Harmonic Structure
Belief is harmonic structure: the recurrent pattern of timing, relation and probability through which language, meaning and experience take form.
The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
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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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
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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.
