What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
Tag: relational ontology
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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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
Civilisations fall into rhythms, and changing those rhythms changes the futures they can sustain.
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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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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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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reality
Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.
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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.
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continuity precedes truth
Disinformation is not the opposite of information, but one of the ways communication organises uncertainty into meaning. Its deeper structure belongs less to politics than to the philosophical problem of how truth, coherence, and identity emerge at all.
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The Architecture of Absence
A strong current in modern thought still treats things as if they exist first, complete in themselves, and only later enter into relation with other things. The individual. The institution. The nation-state. The market. The technological platform. These are often imagined as discrete objects possessing internal coherence, as though persistence were generated primarily from within […]
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Field Logic: A Primer
Field logic does not begin with separate things that subsequently form relations. It begins with unresolved relations, differences, delays, dependencies, and absences from which temporary identities emerge and persist, identities we mistake for things.
