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culture

Purpose of Culture

Should we be so surprised to discover that the ways in which culture functions and processes information are also, and fundamentally, the functions and essential reasons, rationale or purposes of that culture ? #recursion

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culture

Organisational Self(-ish)

The mystifying, proliferating inefficiencies of our vast and sprawling global bureaucracies illustrate clearly (yet perhaps also in some measure opaquely) the raison d’etre of administrative systems everywhere.  That purpose and identifiable essential reason is the proliferation of their own continued existence.  Whether or not it should be considered as though seen through some conspiratorial filter […]

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Philosophy

Discontinuous

There exists a vast discontinuity and rupture running through the middle of this world…

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Philosophy

Circular

“…human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition…:

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Philosophy

Self-Reflection

On writing for one’s self…

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communication systems

Information: Mass & Self-Gravitation

Information storage is delayed communication. The capability to reliably record information creates a repository into which the simultaneously recursive and reflexive functions of language and communication can refer. Language is an incomplete logical system of self-reference…