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Philosophy

Diagnostic Minimalism: Global Communication Systems

Diagnostic minimalism is the necessary opening move in any serious encounter with a communications system that looks impossibly complex and yet, because of that same complexity, repeatedly falls back into rudimentary behaviour; before adding theory, metaphor, or moral posture, one subtracts, removes inherited ontological furniture, suspends the reflex to personalise what is structural, and asks […]

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Philosophy

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 […]

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Philosophy

Truth in Language

What is truth. The moment we ask the question, we are already inside language, and everything that follows unfolds from that fact. Truth is not something we approach from outside, as a detached observer might inspect an object. It arises within sequences of tokens, within the games we play with them, within the structures we […]

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Philosophy

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 […]

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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 […]

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technology

Divided

Technologically mediated communication intensifies what language has always done: it isolates, divides, and distances us from one another, and from ourselves, as a necessary precondition for meaningful communicative experience to arise at all. Given the nature of the world, I carry a quiet regret at not having known more people more fully, even while understanding […]

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art

Desire

Desire does not move in straight lines. It curves. It sustains itself through distance, delay, and asymmetry, forming a logical orbit rather than a trajectory toward fulfilment. What appears in lived experience as longing or pursuit is not a failure of arrival but the mechanism by which relational systems remain open rather than collapse into […]

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cybernetics

System Dynamics and Surface Rules: Sharkskin, Political Economy

Shark skin is a sheet of teeth: millimetre-scale placoid denticles, each with an enamel crown, dentine core and pulp cavity, rooted in the dermis and oriented from nose to tail so that one way feels smooth and the other rasps like sandpaper. In fast swimmers such as the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus and other pelagic […]

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Philosophy

Human Systems

Human behaviour gathers around centres that never quite appear. We move toward meanings that seem solid, yet their solidity comes from the very motion that tries to reach them. The closer we look, the more the “centre” dissolves into the relations that formed it, leaving us oriented by something that exists only as a pattern […]

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cybernetics

General Intelligence

Imagine F and G as two interdependent operations—each defining the other through difference. F acts as a generator: it constructs hypotheses, projections, or internal states. G acts as a comparator: it evaluates, reflects, and reintroduces the outcomes of F back into the system. The diagram’s symmetry, where F = − G, indicates an inversion rather […]

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cybernetics

Threads

In every century, a new medium discovers how easily it can puppet the collective mind. The printing press made possible both Luther’s Reformation and the Thirty Years’ War; the telegraph and newspaper incubated nationalism; radio begot the theater of fascism; television normalized consumption as faith—and vice versa. Each era mistakes its medium for enlightenment until […]

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Philosophy

[02] Disinformation Dynamics: Recursive Harmonics

2.1 Coherence as a Function of Recursion Every communication system is recursive. It consists of elements that transmit signals influencing their own subsequent states. This self-reference produces coherence. A message gains meaning not because it exists but because it is repeated, referenced, and reinterpreted. Without recursion, meaning is static. With recursion, meaning becomes dynamic and […]