Wittgenstein once opined that “philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” I am starting to wonder if cybernetics might not be a battle against the seduction of our minds by technology. The transmission medium and feedback mechanisms of language and technology become the primary methods of influence as […]
Technological metamorphosis tends by variously unacknowledged or linguistically and cognitively impermeable mechanisms to reproduce precisely the correct kind of uncertainty and communication or media system turbulence to assure the continuing tenure of those technologies and their logical descendants. It is reproduction, however, possessing an emergent variation sufficient to breed resilience as unscripted existential assurance.
Oh yes contingent dependency, and yet value and assurance are always, if inadvertently, in some way grounded in risk and insecurity. Contentious, perhaps, but we shouldn’t need too many examples to validate the intuition. Interesting how the solution seems to be framed in terms of “more technology” which hardly takes account of endemic or axiomatic […]
Generative AI is itself an amplification from and product of the kinds of dissonant #entropy that actors engaged in “hack and deceive” are seeking to leverage, even if only transiently or in passing as a function of larger #competitive systems. Advanced Persistent Trolls are themselves likely a temporary #communications systems coefficient, in the longer run. Automation at scale will accelerate far […]
An impassioned defence of anti-materialist ontology as addressed to the indeterminacy of provable, definable or unchanging values and the meaning of (a) life. The enigma infusing materialism must forever remain that of the partiality and incompleteness of any aspiration to construct (and reduce) knowledge in regards to the demonstrable facts with which the world presents […]
The languages and technologies with which we engage the downstream consequences of our own technical (as linguistic and communications) productivity are as unable to capture, explain and bound the accelerating metamorphosis of technological #change as is that electromechanical juggernaut (itself and also) unable to provide the linearity and closure that is forever spruiks as its […]
Machine Learning amplifies existing signals in the data and also does so when we ourselves are quite unaware of that bias. Identifying biases and engaging them is, or has largely become, an art of post facto, retrodictive engagement. The futures technology generate are so often unacknowledged as recursively self-propagating compression waves, signals as an encoded […]
While it is inordinately difficult to remain politically agnostic or to detach emotion from remote observation of the grotesque inhumanity and unrepentant criminality of an irredeemable decision to inflict Imperialist war upon any nation, just as it is somewhat difficult not to cast a wry smirk in the general direction of self-disassembling totalitarian aspirations to […]
There is an interesting, related theory hailing from philosophers Andy Park and David Chalmers. The Theory of Extended Mind asserts that, while your consciousness (whatever that may be) does seem squarely anchored between your ears, your cognition is a distributed entity that – yes – is characteristically if not uniquely “of human brains” but need […]
An excellent piece of communication on the topic of communication: A spectrum and integrated matrix of regenerative uncertainty is simultaneously: that which compels that we must communicate, and, that which inevitably arises from communication. That we find ourselves somewhat lashed to the mast of this self-propagating vortex of competitive differences and ideological distances should really […]
When science encounters the unexplained it tends only to see reflected back those concepts that self-validate the assumptions by (and through) which this well-ordered system of knowledge persists. The absence of unambiguous evidence is also the kind of thing we might expect when encountering any intelligence that is seeking for whatever reasons to obscure its […]
It is worth reflecting that, as though some elementary yet monumentally high-dimensional linear reflex, it is at precisely the moment when our collective intelligence and expressive creativity is set free by #technology that we are also quite utterly and unwittingly imprisoned by it. As above, so below… indeed.
Daedelus Kite 