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Philosophy

No One Owns Truth

There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.

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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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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 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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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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Alien Anthropology

Self-Replication

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

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Psychology

The Implicit Psychological Entropy of Social Media

Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.

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systems

Viral Altruism and the Logic of Self-Propagation

A logic of self-organisation, information-pattern replication and complexity appears at every inflection of discovery to reveal itself as some kind of explanatory “master key”.

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Philosophy

An Autonomous Science ?

The unfolding patterns, exploratory revelations and emergent complexity of Artificial Intelligence may not ultimately reveal itself to be as useful to us as we (and all our aspirations) turn out to be to it.

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communication Complexity culture

Disentangling Cognitive Biases

Cultural and cognitive information systems (and the individuals they inhabit) are implicitly oriented towards the systemic self-replication of patterned complexity.

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Philosophy systems

The Self-Replicating Logic of Life

Life is notoriously difficult to pin down and unambiguously define.

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Complexity culture Philosophy

Conflict as mandatory error of social self-replication

Systems-theoretical analyses of human conflict suggest that it may be an inevitable error or fault in the self-replication of those complex patterns of information and energy that we recognise as society, technology and historical metamorphosis.