It was never intelligence they were sold—it was leverage.Not insight, not understanding—just a mechanism to centralize control across distributed complexity. Artificial intelligence was never the final technology; it was a convenient fiction, framed as an endpoint to justify expansion. The fantasy was this: that thought could be automated, systematized, and monetized without encountering the frictions […]
Meaning = invariance under transformation. Anti-symmetry: if symmetry preserves identity under transformation, anti-symmetry preserves inversion. In logic and physics, an anti-symmetric relation flips sign under exchange:If f(x, y) = –f(y, x), the structure encodes difference as conserved. Applied to meaning:Meaning isn’t preserved by sameness—it’s preserved by structured difference. The system doesn’t reproduce a thing; it reproduces […]
Language is patterned vibration. Every word we speak is structured air, entangling difference and rhythmic displacement into a complex field of resonance. It starts simple—sound, pause, contrast—but those waves aren’t just passing through space, they propagate structure. Speaking, listening, even reading maps onto the same geometry. Beneath grammar and symbols, we’re tuning attention across a […]
Vocabulary Quest: Self-Entanglement/self entanglement/ • noun Definition:The recursive condition in which a system defines and sustains its identity not through fixed essence or external reference, but through its own patterned absence—its internal constraints, dependencies, and the directional pull of what it cannot be. Etymology:From self, indicating reflexive closure, and entanglement, related to tangle, a term […]
What we’re witnessing isn’t collapse—it’s entropic diffusion in a hyperconnected world. As signal density increases, meaning loses its shape and becomes multiplicity. That multiplicity converges—not toward clarity, but toward attractors: points of silence, incoherence, or loss. These attractors aren’t designed—they emerge from the system’s own structure, from the way things flow when nothing can hold. […]
Meaning does not arise from fixed points of reference. It emerges through tension: the interplay of what is defined and what is not, what is stable and what slips away. We navigate conceptual terrain that is neither a neat set of dictionary entries nor a chaotic sprawl of arbitrary signs. Instead, it is a dynamic […]
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Identity is not a fixed entity but represents a shifting construct and constellation of relationally-networked facts, orbiting in some sense around an inherent emptiness—an enigmatic absence that defines rather than diminishes. In this space, identity and meaning emerge as relational, shaped by the dynamic interplay between self and other. Language, too, becomes part of this […]
Communication becomes less ambiguous and more streamlined or efficient when content aligns with dominant (as ascendant) probability distributions. This invokes communicative simplicity as a reciprocal deficit of comprehension. In this way, assurance of significance is plagued by the plausible inevitability of a proliferation of largely meaningless content.
Is “does the AI understand meaning?” an inadvertently deceptive question? We are intent on chasing and catching butterflies with a jar made out of butterflies! Yes, that may just have to be the nature of any expansive philosophy of language but the least we might do is to acknowledge the core intractability of seeking explanatory […]
Words acquire meaning from adaptively relational dependency and entanglement with other words and definitions in whichever language, mind or culture they inhabit. Extrapolating this to sentences (and beyond, to narrative and ideology or any other linguistically-mediated system of belief), the combinatorial complexity of referential dependencies quickly becomes effectively unintelligible. A useful mnemonic and metaphor is […]
Meaning is contested but not because we explicitly or necessarily choose this particular path. If meaning and cultural or political and psychological significance was not subject to ambiguity and confusion, deception and misdirection in the ways it generally is, the adaptive system of bartered value and utility we build around and as language would be […]
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