Beliefs persist less because they are true than because they provide the transient continuity of narrative as semantic coherence.
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Malignant Narcissism
Malignant narcissism can be understood as a hollow configuration of mind that emerges when a fundamental relational balance fails, not because the self is excessive, but because the self is excessively and pathologically overdetermined, unable to sustain the essentially harmonic dynamic tension between internal and external that makes selfhood viable. In a healthy cognitive system, […]
2.1 Coherence as a Function of Recursion Every communication system is recursive. It consists of elements that transmit signals influencing their own subsequent states. This self-reference produces coherence. A message gains meaning not because it exists but because it is repeated, referenced, and reinterpreted. Without recursion, meaning is static. With recursion, meaning becomes dynamic and […]
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