Why do political movements become trapped in the conflicts that hold them together, even when those conflicts threaten to destroy them?
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What Is Political Identity?
Tag: semantics
Language is more than a means of exchanging information. Beneath meaning and communication lie physical dynamics of rhythm, resonance and persistence that shape collective behaviour, social reality and the patterns through which we understand the world.
Language does more than convey meaning. Its recursive rhythms reproduce belief, conflict and the conditions through which societies persist.
An account can be accurate in every detail it gives and deceptive in what it leads people to believe.
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The Essence of Language
Language, like all communication systems, holds together not despite displacement, delay and uncertainty, but because of them.
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Belief as Harmonic Structure
Belief is harmonic structure: the recurrent pattern of timing, relation and probability through which language, meaning and experience take form.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
