It is the strangest thing that all of this exists. The unlikely arrival in the Cosmos of any of this human world is profound. Our world, our cultures and all of our myriad differences and similarities - it is a wonder and peculiarity in all of the vast immensity and silent, unknowing turbulence and mindless…
These Masks Wear Us
These masks of self obscure only the fact of their own emptiness.
Disentangling Hate
Who benefits from stoking the fires of fear, insecurity and hatred?
Disassembling Sentience: Distributed Multidimensional Computation
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
Minority Report
It requires humility to acknowledge that your own ostensibly unique personality, conceptual vocabulary and social self-expression might be little more than a contingent recombinatory node of meaning in a dancing landscape of shifting patterns, linguistic fields, meanings and concepts.
An Unconscious Narrative
Unconscious and unacknowledged, the true power of narrative lies in the self-propagating autonomy it expresses - above and beyond any putative human control. We do not own the stories and meanings through which we live so much as they own us but an essential dissimulation of reflexive psychological self-definition endlessly fails, and is foundationally unable, to recognise this fallacy.
Human Intelligence 2.0
A characteristically long and wordy waffle on the topic of human intelligence, the cognitive hyper-extension of technology, an iterative fracture of grand narrative into abbreviated artefacts, unconscious biases and a Global turn towards authoritarianism.
A.I. Authors – Content without Comprehension
Advances in autonomous, automated information processing technologies appear closely coupled to a qualitative devaluation of what we have always assumed were uniquely human attributes.
Online Success and (its) Information Famine
Integrated and distributed information and energy processing systems are biased by physical principles towards the minimisation of uncertainty.
On Tribal Narratives and Environmental Catastrophe
A core human psychological trait of small-scale tribal herding may work against the kind of global organisational unity and cooperation required to cultivate substantive industrial and economic change in the limited time still available to us.
Impossible Things
Given sufficient complexity, energy or information flow and time, the logical end-state of any particular process need not itself under analysis appear as though rationally derived or even substantively plausible.
Is Your Inner Narrative You ?
That little voice inside your head - is that really who you are ? That reflective, incessant narrator of self...
