Intelligence is too often mistaken for the sum of its parts, as if knowledge were a pile of isolated facts—points that can be counted, catalogued, and stacked. This is the mechanistic view: determinism reduced to inventory. What gets overlooked in that framing is the field—the structure of relations, the gradients of difference, the resonance through […]
To understand ourselves as primarily here to produce waste is to face the unsettling fact that our bodies and systems are throughput machines. What we consume is less important than the transformation that occurs in the middle, where emergent rules of metabolism, language, and culture operate. Output is not accidental but constitutive: waste is not […]
In an age defined by information overload and communicative saturation, the very structure of meaning is straining under its own weight. Traditional accounts of meaning—rooted in symbols, representation, and local causality—struggle to explain how coherence persists across fragmented, dynamic, and scale-invariant systems. A growing body of work points toward something more subtle and robust: not […]
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