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Philosophy

Redundancy and Replication

Cultural entities, artefacts and places are simple moments, nodes in time and space.  It is true that any particular node in some way encodes the whole culture in its form and the patterned flow of information and energy from, around, through and as that thing.  Cultural systems protect themselves from catastrophic failure by distributing their […]

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Philosophy

Decoding Instagram

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.

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Psychology

Neurosis

A neurosis is a problem-solving solution that has lived past it’s use-by date and just keeps on keeping on.