Do you agree with the Danish #philosopher and theologian, Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)? Language mediates not only our experience of the #world but our very structure of experiencing. While #language moves us emotionally and affectively, this felt immediacy is itself a #product of deeper, patterned regularities—mathematical, logical architectures through which meaning is sustained and extended. In […]
Diving in… Culture is a slow-moving entropic wave, propagating through time as an emergent pattern of communication. Unlike speech or writing, which operate on high-frequency scales, culture moves through a distributed process of accumulation, decay, recombination, and redistribution. It is neither stable nor chaotic but oscillates within a state of perpetual disequilibrium, shaped by noise, […]
To reframe the Lagrangian in terms of deeper exploration of least action, entropy, and logical incompleteness, we begin by shifting the focus from the traditional mechanical interpretation of least action—the path that minimises energy expenditure—to a broader, more ontological interpretation. Here, the least action becomes an approximation towards a kind of dynamic equilibrium, not merely […]
Mnemosyne, the Titaness of Memory, stands as one of the most profound figures in Greek mythology, embodying the living thread of memory that weaves the past into the present and propels it into the future. She is the daughter of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), representing a primordial force whose power shapes not only individual […]
Ageing is our embodied experience of entropy. In itself, it is neither good nor bad – it just is. The countless ways that things decay or almost wilfully disassemble – they tend on average to be costly and unpleasant experiences but there is a flip side to the story. This darker anomaly and compound mystery […]
Mnemosyne’s gift is a curse. Those who do not remember the past may be forever condemned to repeat it but those who cannot forget the past will suffer an even more difficult fate. Not all memories are positive.
The critical role of local clocks in the emergence of complex systems is often misunderstood. It is at the level of harmonic resonance and entangled epistemological (as much as material) interdependence that system valence begins to refine cadence, prosody and the overall synchronisation of interacting (i.e. communicating) system clocks. It may not be immediately apparent […]
Words are essentially meaningless components that recombine in meaningful ways. Meaning is a function of evolving referential networks. Global system self-referentiality sustains this soliton-like adaptive shockwave that language, culture and technology embodies. Meaning is anchored in meaninglessness, and other such recursive tales of entropy and time…
Astonishing beauty and entirely natural, expressed in the harmony and resonance of the (very) many parts with the whole. I enjoy this kind of photography because it also reminds us, much as does astrophotography, that wherever (and whenever) we look into the natural world we are staring into our own deep history. Contrast this with […]
There is a certain poetry in the notion that our understanding of time itself possesses a developmental arc and trajectory. It is something of a meta-temporal reflection that might go the way of much other involuntarily metastatic metaphysical inconsequentialities except for this – the unfolding (as organic) growth of our collaborative cognitive, linguistic and cultural […]
This morning I read an interesting online aphorism from a wise school that suggested that most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment. Much the same might be said, in functional microcosm, of the perceived value of a social media post or comment. We could ask how […]
The strangest thing about being a person and having an identity is that none of those concepts and labels or phrases and idioms we build our selves around actually belong to us. To be a person, an individual, an identifiable difference as distinct from all the background colour and noise of whichever time and place […]
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