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culture

Generational Melancholy

Every generation reinvents ennui.

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Alien Anthropology

Sentience is Logical Recursion

We are the self-replicating logic of logical self-replication itself, repetition with refinement and variation.

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Philosophy

It’s Binary

It’s binary. Everything is information.

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culture

Encoding Culture

A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time.

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culture

Art without Boundaries

Where does art stop and the person begin? Is the frame of the canvas the boundary? Is the wall, the room, the building the boundary? Is the audience the definitive edge and boundary condition between the artefact and the meaning or interpretation?

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culture

Art as Encoded Message

Information encoding for message transmission is a function expressed in (and as) visual culture and which evolves over time.

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logic Philosophy physics

A Boundless Cosmos

For a Universe to have spontaneously emerged from nothing may be an alternate view on the the same fact as that it has always existed. It is not the logic which fails so much as the implicit (or apparent) boundaries of our own minds.

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culture

Cosmic Self-Discovery and Barbie Dolls

In this painting of the “human Barbie doll”, Swiss artist Stefania Pinsone reflects the self-conscious self-replication of culture, self and art itself. The painting is titled “Valeria Lukyanova (white noise)”.

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culture

What is Art?

Art is that through which we recreate ourselves.

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Philosophy technology

Human-like Thought in AI?

AI systems approximating human thought? It seems to me that we are quite a long way from comprehensively understanding what human thought actually is, let alone successfully simulating it.

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culture

The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques

A view from the periphery on the tribal self-validation of academic cliques.

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Alien Anthropology

Self-Replication

Self-replication. Surely this is what life is all about.