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Psychology

Intersecting Sets and Ineliminable Absence

Exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis, negative theology, and the distributed nature of semantics presents a fascinating and complex intellectual challenge. Here’s how these fields might intersect and provide deep insights: The intersection of these disciplines invites us to consider the profound complexity of existence, where understanding is not just about what is present and known, […]

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Complexity

Self-Organising Criticality in Brains, Battles and Universes

The notion (articulated in the video) that the homeostatic process by which quasicriticality is maintained in the brain may have an essentially cybernetic explanation. In Jeff Hawkins’ “A Thousand Brains” he references neurophysiologist Vernon Mountcastle’s belief in the existence of an underlying (as unifying) organisational principle in the brain. I wouldn’t be at all surprised […]