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cybernetics

systems thinking

A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.

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Philosophy

Applied Field Logic: Mathematical Foundations

Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.

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Philosophy

school days: same as it ever was

Some exits are not failures. They are accurate readings of the room.

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cybernetics

system dynamics: non-linearity

Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: Climate Change

We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.

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Philosophy

aussie media fail

Theirs is a role play of analysis, simply and unwittingly giftwrapping populist-adjacent themes for broad public consumption; little on insight, big on performative role play.

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cybernetics

finger-painting australia into an ideological corner: populism

Just my perspective.
Your mileage may vary.

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politics

adaptation: fixing aussie politics

There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.

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politics

populism down under

The appeal of populism is that it makes complexity feel unnecessary. The cost is usually discovered much later.

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Philosophy

reality

Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.

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politics

one notion politics

Populism turns complex national problems into kindergarten theatre, then sells the applause as policy.

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cybernetics

strait of hormuz

The more instability surrounds the Strait of Hormuz, the more valuable it becomes. The paradox is that a prolonged conflict may be increasing the strategic importance of one of Iran’s most powerful sources of leverage.