A fascinating feature of contemporary organisational systems, and at all scales of magnitude, is the various ways in which they subscribe to a simplistic mechanical and linear model of ontology and operation. It is as though, while everyone and everywhere is more than happy to commercially and politically exploit the Post-Newtonian and Post-Industrial Revolution technologies…
The March of the Immaterial Abstractions
A patterned liquid probability and abstract symmetry of information flow. The form and flow of this life and logical information space we inhabit is as much a matter of what we are not as what we are; we are manifestations and expressions of that life beyond us as much as that within. There exists a…
Social Reorganisation: Lessons from Physics and Nature
All ordered organisational systems are engaged in an endless competition with (and of) disorder and entropy; it is a race to weave order and patterned persistence from available resources while the other end of the tapestry continuously unravels into largely unrecoverable waste and loss. These organisational systems aspire to a relatively stable or constructively adaptive…
Culture, Communication, Complexity: An Endless Inflection of Exploratory Investigation
I appear to have made several fatal errors of judgement in attempting to decode culture, cognition, communication and complexity. The essence of comprehension and information that we attribute as rational, foundational and amenable to explanation is not encoded in such a way as to ever be fully decompressed, unpacked, structured and recorded. It has always…
Cyber Insecurity: Endless Breaches
Context: New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report There is an enigma here, far beyond the rank foolishness of keeping vast quantities of such sensitive data in an unencrypted format (see the linked article), there is a deeper problem. The more valuable any data is, the more incentive there…
An Organisational Uncanny Valley
The entities and artefacts we make "in our own image" include the abstractions and patterns through which we understand and organise the world and ourselves.
Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.
Climate Change and Global Organisational Neurosis
Global organisational neuroses as inhibiting factor in addressing climate change?
Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention.
Enigmas of Ecological Problem-Solving
The non-linear cognitive flexibility and diverse conceptual vocabulary required to describe the complex problem-space of environmental and ecological complexity is also the heuristic practise with which we might seek to successfully address it.
Infallible Machines and Inflexible Organisations
If a non-trivially complex organisational system of any kind or scale is to be considered (even notionally) as complete or entirely self-consistent, it can not also be adaptive, flexible and resilient.
Information, Theory and Complexity in Technological and Organisational Systems
There is no way of proving that you have obtained the most concise, accurate or irreducibly essential pattern or theory from which any sufficiently (i.e. non-trivially) complex pattern or sequence can be reproduced...
