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culture

Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.

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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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Philosophy

Blind Chance

Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention.

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politics

A Paradox of Online Political Engagement

The endless stoking of the fires of difference might do little over a longer term to benefit the ideological and political voices and positions of liberalism and humanism.

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Philosophy

Complex Systems: Life, Intelligence and a Logical Wormhole

Systems continuity and the emergence of useful, creative complexity harnesses the implicit and constitutive logical discontinuity of a holistic systems theory in mischievous ways…

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Philosophy

Beauty

One does not need to own a work of art to truly or fully understand or appreciate the deep beauty of its message…