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Where the real Platonic forms are

Negation is the only additive move available to a unified, self-referential system, because with no outside to draw from, coherence grows solely through internal differentiation that preserves the invariants allowing the whole to continue without collapse. The Platonic forms are not objects, templates, or ideals waiting somewhere else. They are the invariants of a unified […]

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cybernetics logic Philosophy systems

The Problem of Many Spaces

Living systems, space, and coherence Living systems do not operate in a single space in the sense of a bounded domain, nor do they truly inhabit many distinct ones; rather, they instance a continuous relational field whose articulation into behavioural, transcriptional, morphological, physiological, and symbolic sub-spaces constitutes its harmonic structure, not a reduction of it. […]