I suspect that human confusion and belligerent insecurity may be irreducible. This is not to say that these things are endemic or necessary properties of either ourselves, or of the world more generally. It is to suggest that our historical development and evolutionary inheritance has so profoundly entangled intelligence with uncertainty that we are not […]
The relationship of new technologies with sustainable organisational learning and growth is not itself new. It’s a journey of adaptive sociotechnical integration that is as beneficial to consider in the strategic whole as it is mandatory to define and refine in the instrumental parts. What is new is that non-linear effects are inevitable at scale. […]
Humanity is, as ever, bound by our endemic fascination and obsession upon details and aesthetic narcosis in the beauty of visual and narrative abstractions. We serially fail to recognise and comprehend that it is the property of recursive self-similarity that is far more significant than any of its transient instances. Beautiful, but profoundly incomplete, we […]
Our greatest risk may be that we each and all entertain and inhabit a reflexive abhorrence of the essential uncertainty that science is, if inadvertently, bound to generate. This, I think, represents a key misunderstanding in how we cultivate and describe theories (and technologies). The aspirational orientation towards epistemological closure, communication and control is a […]
In the quest to comprehend the vast tapestry of reality, we find ourselves at a crossroads of opposites and contradictions. It is as if the very fabric of existence hinges on a delicate balance, a critical dependence upon its opposite. This interplay of contrasts isn’t merely a linguistic construct or a byproduct of our cognitive […]
The core question is that of continuity versus change. Not only do we find the genotypical logic of Aristotelian syllogisms whispering back to us in various ways in and as these aspirationally cognitive technologies, but we also find ourselves engaging in similarly antique philosophical reflections at almost every inflection point. Aligning personal experience and socioeconomic […]
How are we to engage and navigate the speed and ubiquity with which a rising tide of generative technology is now reshaping communication systems? It is precisely the volatility and uncertainty of an accelerating step-change in information technology that assures its persistence and accelerating growth. Combinatorial entropy amplifies communication system complexity, necessitating constant adaptive reorientation […]
Being clever is not always about being correct, but being optimistic might in some (or many) instances be the greatest self-deception of all. Systems of largely unsubstantiated belief, as our private and shared worlds tend to be, generate a threshold level of expansive uncertainty and referential or relational (i.e. semantic) undecidability. This then invokes and […]
What better way to assure cultural, cognitive or communications system continuity than to anchor its rapidly speciating encoding machinery in an endlessly productive combinatorial entropy and kernel core of stochastic uncertainty? This is precisely what generative technologies are doing. Food for thought.
Technologically-mediated idioms of symbolic communication reflect, reflexively shape, and functionally reproduce our identities and cultures. It may be less obvious but an orientation towards certainty and regulatory control can only ever be grounded in, and validated by, a core dependence upon the impossibility and conspicuous absence of closure.
Technological problems invoke technological solutions which then reproduce the radiating speciation of (many) more problems. Consider the untenable nature of a developmental trajectory so pathologically intent upon, and commercially incentivised by, obfuscating its own conspicuous absence of certainty, self-consistency and teleological closure.
Cognition in some sense exists as a function of the abstract decomposability of the world but finds itself forever problematised and fractured by an unresolvable epistemological enigma. Mind (and brain) has to be divided against itself to persist as this provides the foundational symmetry as gradient of difference through which it can adapt, learn and […]
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