Tag: philosophy of mind

Entropy is King

Post author By G
Post date Jan 30, 2026
No Comments on Entropy is King

Entropy, and only entropy, is king. Highly ordered information systems do not rest on harmony. They are grounded in dissonance, volatility, and conflict, just as is extreme wealth sustained by the presence of its antithesis, the incoherent becoming, and always having been, the transmission medium of its inverse. This is not metaphor. It is structural. […]

cybernetics

The Geometry of the Unconscious

Post author By G
Post date Jan 29, 2026
1 Comment on The Geometry of the Unconscious

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

cybernetics

Inside the Cognitive War

A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]

Tags ai and society, AI ethics, algorithmic control, algorithmic influence, Artificial Intelligence, attention economy, behavioral engineering, cognitive war, collective intelligence, communication systems, complex systems, computational systems, corporate power, critical theory, cultural control, cybernetics, digital-power, disinformation, emergence and complexity, entropy and complexity, Global Systems, human cognition, human condition, identity and power, information age, information warfare, media ecology, misinformation, modern civilization, philosophy of culture, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, platform capitalism, political manipulation, political psychology, propaganda, psychological warfare, social media influence, societal change, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems theory, systems thinking, tech power, technological mediation, technology and politics

Philosophy

self

Post author By G
Post date Jan 28, 2026
No Comments on self

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 […]

Philosophy

Theory of Language and Communication

Post author By G
Post date Jan 25, 2026
2 Comments on Theory of Language and Communication

Formal Abstract This document presents a formal, process-based theory of language, information, and dynamic meaning systems. Communication, cognition, identity, legitimacy, and truth are treated not as static entities but as temporally constituted processes sustained through repetition, coupling, and feedback within distributed fields. A minimal axiom set grounded in acts, timing, coupling, recursion, variation, and emergent […]

Tags adaptive-systems, algorithmic systems, applied cybernetics, artificial intelligence and communication, cognitive systems, communication ecology, communication systems, communication theory, complex systems, complexity philosophy, control theory, coupling dynamics, cultural dynamics, cultural systems, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, disinformation theory, distributed cognition, dynamic meaning, emergence, emergent order, entropy and variation, epistemic systems, Epistemology, feedback systems, field theory of meaning, formal systems theory, general theory of language, Global Systems, governance systems, identity systems, information systems, information theory, institutional systems, legitimacy dynamics, meaning systems, meaning-formation, media ecology, network dynamics, nonlinear-dynamics, Ontology, phase dynamics, philosophy of information, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, political communication, political economy of information, process ontology, recursion, reflexive governance, resilience theory, semantics, social cybernetics, social systems, structural dynamics, system coherence, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems design, systems intelligence, systems modelling, systems theory, technological mediation, temporal systems, theoretical cybernetics, truth and legitimacy, unified systems framework

Philosophy

Teresa Brennan: Philosophy of Affect

Post author By G
Post date Jan 15, 2026
No Comments on Teresa Brennan: Philosophy of Affect

Teresa Brennan was an Australian feminist philosopher whose work crossed psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory, frequently placing her at odds with academic orthodoxy. She challenged dominant Lacanian interpretations by insisting that affect is not a linguistic effect or private feeling but a materially transmissible force that moves between bodies and across institutions. This stance drew […]

Tags affect and power, affect theory, affect transmission, affective labor, autonomy myth, continental philosophy, critical feminism, critical theory, cultural theory, dependency and projection, embodiment theory, epistemology critique, existence precedes essence, existentialism, feminist philosophy, feminist theory, gender and power, gender theory, historical materialism critique, history after lacan, history and psychoanalysis, identity formation, jacques lacan, lacan critique, masculine psychosis, masculinity critique, modernity critique, ontology of relation, patriarchy analysis, philosophy and gender, philosophy and politics, philosophy of affect, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, post-lacanian theory, projection and disavowal, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic feminism, relational ontology, relational systems, social theory, structural dependency, subject formation, subjectivity, systems theory and affect, teresa brennan, the interpretation of the flesh, the transmission of affect, unconscious structures, western epistemology

cybernetics language Philosophy

Living Inside Language

We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]

Tags abstraction, abstraction drift, adaptability, administrative rationality, algorithmic decision making, ambiguity tolerance, artificial intelligence limits, automation and society, bureaucratic systems, categorisation, cognitive science, communication systems, complexity science, consciousness studies, control systems, cultural systems, cybernetics, data driven systems, decision infrastructures, distributed intelligence, efficiency logic, embodied cognition, emergence, epistemic humility, Epistemology, ethical technology, everyday philosophy, extended mind, feedback loops, formalisation, generative systems, governance systems, human centred systems, human cognition, human experience, humane design, information theory, institutional design, instrumental rationality, intelligence as field, interface thinking, language and reality, language technologies, loss of context, machine learning critique, managerial logic, meaning making, metrics and meaning, modern rationalism, Ontology, organisational behaviour, perception and reality, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, popular philosophy, power and knowledge, predictive systems, procedural reasoning, provisional knowledge, public understanding of complexity, resilience, responsibility and agency, rule based systems, science communication, sensemaking, social complexity, social systems, standardisation, symbolic systems, system optimisation, systems theory, systems thinking, technocracy, technological mediation, translation across domains, uncertainty

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

cybernetics humanity Philosophy

Human Wholeness

Post author By G
Post date Aug 30, 2025
No Comments on Human Wholeness

When psychological insecurity and political desperation convene, they generate an entangled, self-gravitational field of caricature—where “the Other” becomes a constructed antipode whose very existence is required to validate the ideological self. These manufactured simplicities thrive on contrast, feeding off the projection of weakness, danger, or impurity, so that the fragile unity of the in-group appears […]

Alien Anthropology

On Mind

Post author By G
Post date Dec 19, 2024
No Comments on On Mind

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

Conscious AI?

Post author By G
Post date May 21, 2023
No Comments on Conscious AI?

I’d be much more worried about an unconscious AI. The impending corporate dissimulation of an omniscient technocratic overlord will attract and acquire all the trappings and recursively self-propagating (human) interfaces of a complex system that maximally self-propagates and self-sustains as a function of the uncertainties it invokes in regards to ambiguities regarding the proof of […]

Science

A Thousand Brains

I’m about half way through reading Jeff Hawkins’ book “A Thousand Brains” which has been taking me quite some time, not because it is overly complicated or inaccessible, but because I tend to have so little spare time these days. It’s an interesting read with the key takeaway (so far) being that our mental world […]