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Philosophy

Peace Is Not the Absence of Conflict: Rethinking Security

The absence of violence is not necessarily peace. From personal relationships to international affairs, insecurity persists when attempts to resolve conflict reproduce the conditions that generate it.

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cybernetics

War and Peace: the necessary displacement of cost, complexity, consequence

In physics and complex systems science, local order is never self-originating and never free. It is produced by energy throughput, maintained by boundaries, and stabilised by exporting disorder beyond the region whose coherence is being preserved. This is not conjecture but a general consequence of thermodynamics, open-system dynamics, and basic control logic. Organisms preserve internal […]

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Philosophy

Entropy is King

Entropy, and only entropy, is king. Highly ordered information systems do not rest on harmony. They are grounded in dissonance, volatility, and conflict, just as is extreme wealth sustained by the presence of its antithesis, the incoherent becoming, and always having been, the transmission medium of its inverse. This is not metaphor. It is structural. […]