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The Geometry of the Unconscious

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Post date Jan 29, 2026
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The unconscious is not a hidden chamber beneath awareness, nor a secondary mind running in parallel. It is the emergent interior of dynamical, adaptive, relational complexity itself. It is what complex systems feel like from the inside. Any system capable of learning, anticipation, coordination, and self-regulation must generate internal structure that cannot be fully present […]

Tags adaptive intelligence, autopoiesis, cognitive science theory, complex adaptive systems, complex systems theory, complexity and meaning, complexity science, consciousness and complexity, consciousness studies, cybernetic philosophy, cybernetics, distributed cognition, dynamical systems, emergence, emergent intelligence, Epistemology, field logic, high-level theoretical systems philosophy of mind, holistic systems, information theory, logical incompleteness, metaphysics, nonlinear-dynamics, Ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of complexity, philosophy of mind, philosophy-of-systems, process philosophy, recursive systems, relational complexity, relational ontology, second-order cybernetics, self-organisation, systems ontology, systems philosophy, systems thinking, theoretical neuroscience, topological philosophy, unconscious mind

Philosophy

self

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Post date Jan 28, 2026
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The self never settles because the world never settles. Your body changes. Neural chemistry fluctuates. Memory edits itself. Relationships move. Context rearranges. Words drift. Culture turns. New facts arrive, old certainties decay, and the feedback never stops. So the self is not rewritten because it is faulty, but because it is embedded in conditions that […]

Psychology

The Human Condition

Psychoanalysis begins with a joke that only works because it fails: the patient arrives burdened with paranoia, anxiety, and unhappiness, and the doctor replies that this is simply the human condition. (Cure denied.) The moment this is understood, the structure collapses. The consulting room becomes a mirror, not a remedy, and what it reflects is […]

Philosophy

Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

Philosophy

Philosophical Alienation

Consciousness entails perspectival isolation. Subjective experience is necessarily local, bounded by the fact that one mind does not have direct access to another. Philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cognitive science converge on this constraint, whether framed as first-person authority, privacy of qualia, or irreducible point of view. Language does not remove this barrier. It operationalises […]

Tags alienation, cognitive science, collective intelligence, collective understanding, communication theory, Complexity, consciousness, coordination, cultural theory, deferred meaning, disagreement, distributed cognition, emergence, Epistemology, existential isolation, existential philosophy, field dynamics, first person perspective, identity, identity formation, individuation, intellect, isolation, language philosophy, legibility, linguistic mediation, loneliness, meaning making, meaning without fusion, modern philosophy, non convergence, ontic absence, Ontology, perspicacity, phenomenology, Philosophy, philosophy of mind, pluralism, political coherence, political philosophy, post structuralism, privacy of experience, qualia, rationality, relational meaning, relational systems, self sustainment, selfhood, semantics, shared isolation, shared meaning, social cognition, strategy, structural difference, subjectivity, systems philosophy, systems thinking, tension, unity and multiplicity

Alien Anthropology

Experienced?

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Post date Apr 21, 2025
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A healthy system rarely needs to shout. It grows complexity in silence, nourishes dissent without collapse, and tolerates ambiguity because it trusts its capacity to adapt. When systems become brittle, however, they begin to ossify around templates—rubrics of deterministic, historical certainty, slogans that substitute for creative or individual thought, and pageantry that masks—and all while […]

Alien Anthropology

On Mind

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Post date Dec 19, 2024
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On Mind (A Reassuring Perspective) We often picture the mind as something solid—a steady presence behind our thoughts and feelings. It’s comforting to believe that there is a core “self” guiding everything, a firm anchor in a world that can feel uncertain. And yet, when we look more carefully, the mind turns out to be […]

Philosophy

Untangling Webs: Extended Cognition

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Post date Jun 10, 2018
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The role of innovative technological mediation in information storage and processing…

Tags efficiency, optimisation, optimization, Organisation, organization, perception, phenomenology, systems