We are not so much trapped in our own minds and lives as we are trapped and bound by and in those of others. Personal dissatisfaction and unhappiness is common, perhaps ubiquitous, and is at base a shared endeavour; for all its dissonance and discomfort, it must be assumed that it is a property of […]
The primary cultural purpose of the production of ideological and political difference is the continuing production (and reproduction) of ideological and political difference. The logical abstractions of information and entropy self-replication autonomously seek optimal methods of self-replication and self-propagation – through the individuated or tribal cognitive entities and artefacts of culture and communications systems. Observe […]
Our systems of logistics and commuter transport derive the abstract, symbolic value and benefit of logical continuity from their function just as much as the commuters do.
We build machines to define ourselves but in neither do we find the certainty or the completeness we seek.
The ancient emergence of information-encoding mechanisms that seek both optimal self-replication and resilience against catastrophic loss of components and sub-systems – in contemporary manifestation.
Extreme ideologies manifest in patterns of ebb and flow like everything else…
The entropy of difference provides discrete patterns of information and thought with the energy, complexity and momentum they require to self-propagate.
Culture is the logical inversion of the human mind.
There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
The catastrophic entropy of a currently most-probable future is not the only available solution in the possibility-space of all emergent and adaptive human planetary civilisations.
The core experience and sense or perception of self is real, but the self is not.
Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.
Daedelus Kite 