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Philosophy

Consciousness: The Hard Problem of a False Distinction

Consciousness, free will and the philosophical consequences of asking the wrong question.

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Philosophy

The Logic of the Moment: Knowledge is Approximate

Knowledge takes form at the boundary between what can be articulated and what cannot yet, or perhaps cannot ever, be fully known. Hubris remains evanescent.

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Philosophy

institutional conservatism and the failure of inquiry

The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: From Field-Level Principles to Domain-Level Practice

Applied Field Logic functions as a general analytical framework through which organisational regularities become comparable across otherwise unrelated domains. Advanced cybernetics.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: Why?

The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.

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Science

the conspicuous absence in science

Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.

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Philosophy

Visualising Reality

There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.

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culture

Doctor Who ?

In an infinite Universe, anything that can happen *will* happen…