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Philosophy

The Madness of America: How Communication Reproduces Collective Irrationality

The madness of America is not an isolated national pathology. It reveals how communication synchronises ordinary human vulnerabilities, reproducing antagonism, institutional authority and collective irrationality.

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cybernetics

Yes, We’re All Individuals

Why institutions, political movements and intellectual communities reproduce the same patterns of identity, conformity and exclusion while insisting on their differences.

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cybernetics

Das Wesen der Sprache: Differenz, Verzögerung und die Entstehung von Bedeutung

Sprache bewahrt ihren Zusammenhang nicht trotz Verschiebung, Verzögerung und Ungewissheit, sondern gerade durch sie. Bedeutung wird innerhalb sich wandelnder Beziehungen fortwährend neu hervorgebracht und bleibt über Veränderungen hinweg bestehen.

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cybernetics

What Does Education Do?

Education stabilises knowledge long enough to transmit it, even as the machinery through which knowledge is produced and interpreted accelerates the movement of the epistemic attractor itself.

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Philosophy

how AI accelerates the evolution of language

AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.

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Philosophy

language

We do not simply use language. We participate in its continual reconstruction, and through that reconstruction language continually participates in ours.

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cybernetics

influence this: the probabilistic frequency structure of communication

Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.

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life

my neurological double-tap

Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.

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cybernetics

language as harmonic structure

Meaning is not stored in words; it emerges as harmonic structure through time.