Disentangling Hate
Who benefits from stoking the fires of fear, insecurity and hatred? Continue reading Disentangling Hate
Tag: narrative
Disassembling Sentience: Distributed Multidimensional Computation
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover. Continue reading Disassembling Sentience: Distributed Multidimensional Computation
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. Continue reading Minority Report
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. Continue reading An Unconscious Narrative
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. Continue reading Human Intelligence 2.0
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. Continue reading A.I. Authors – Content without Comprehension
Online Success and (its) Information Famine
Integrated and distributed information and energy processing systems are biased by physical principles towards the minimisation of uncertainty. Continue reading Online Success and (its) Information Famine
