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cybernetics

how complex institutions preserve failure

Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.

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Philosophy

śūnyatā and the generative logic of absence

Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.

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cybernetics

the same problem

The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.

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Philosophy

Order, Entropy and the Antisymmetry of Persistence

What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.

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Philosophy Psychology

why you can never fully know yourself

The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.

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Philosophy

outer limits: impredicativity

Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.

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cybernetics

simply synchrony: rhythmic structure of complexity

Civilisations do not simply make choices. They fall into rhythms — and the future may depend on learning how to change the music.

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Philosophy

Applied Field Logic: Mathematical Foundations

Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: Why?

The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: Climate Change

We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.

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Philosophy

reality

Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.

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cybernetics

trust

Authenticity is not destroyed by media so much as converted into an interface problem: a carefully arranged background, a handful of familiar signals, and the strange little theatre by which the network teaches the self how to appear real.