Tag: Psychology

The Utility of Ambiguity

It appears that a degree of ambiguity may be an inverse function of the generalised utility of any concept.

Tags adaptation, ambiguity, creativity, culture, information, innovation, Psychology, technology

Selfies as Memes, Memes as Cultural Selfies

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Post date Jan 5, 2019
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Selfies are memes and memes are cultural selfies through which a logic and self-replication of the question of individual or cultural self-identity reproduces itself.

Tags Epistemology, holograph, image, interferometry, metamorphosis, Psychology, recursion, self-portrait, self-propagation, self-reference, selfie

communication Philosophy

What we require most critically is insight and effective methods for sharing valuable information with other minds. This is quite probably the most difficult communication task with which to successfully engage.

Tags biology, communication, cosmos, evolution, information, insight, language, life, Psychology, recursion, Science, transmission

Philosophy

Living through Language

Do we live through words or do words live through us ?

Tags communication, featured, information, language, linguistics, message, pattern, Philosophy, Psychology, recursion, soliton, viral, virus, words

culture

The Imitation Game: Information and Persuasion

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Post date Dec 29, 2018
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This contemporary information and communications technology environment provides a rich and fertile testbed for observing, borrowing and repurposing concepts and methods of influence and persuasion-for-effect.

Tags abstract, abstraction, communication, imitation, influence, information, logic, persuasion, politics, Psychology, recursion, self-replication

Alien Anthropology life Psychology

Self-replication, imperfect.

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Post date Dec 21, 2018
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We are that living matter through which the logic of self-replication self-replicates; we are not the bearers or the beneficiaries of this process, we are the medium through which it (shockwave-like) passes.

Tags biology, evolution, genetics, incompleteness, life, logic, Psychology, purpose, recursion

history systems technology

Accelerating Frames of History

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Post date Dec 9, 2018
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The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards…

Tags acceleration, amplitude, change, Complexity, frequency, history, Psychology, recursion, self, sociology, technology, time

life Philosophy Psychology

A Self-Extinguishing Flame

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Post date Nov 29, 2018
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It is staggering (and blissfully unacknowledged) the extent to which this world of ours and all of its many anthropomorphic catastrophes are all quite simply occurring within and emanating from these brains between our ears.

Tags climate change, Complexity, death, existence, global warming, history, humanity, intelligence, life, Peace, politics, Psychology, Science, survival, Universe, war, wisdom

art culture Philosophy

Impermanence: Tattoo Fascination

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Post date Nov 28, 2018
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Investment in inscribed permanence and attachment to continuing body or concept and symbol is the very thing which emphasises and reminds us of the ultimate and inevitable transience-into-disassembly-and-nonexistence of this vessel and mind.