Living systems, space, and coherence Living systems do not operate in a single space in the sense of a bounded domain, nor do they truly inhabit many distinct ones; rather, they instance a continuous relational field whose articulation into behavioural, transcriptional, morphological, physiological, and symbolic sub-spaces constitutes its harmonic structure, not a reduction of it. […]
An apparent and recurring tendency in how cancer is framed is to treat it as a failure of biological order rather than as a reorganisation within it. The work of the physicist Paul Davies helps correct this by treating living systems as information-processing organisations with multiple stable regimes. Cancer, on this view, is not noise, […]
AI companionship is a downstream expression of a much older dependency: the tendency to mistake symbolic coherence for certainty, and patterned response for agency. Language evolved pari passu, along with neurochemistry, but the structure it expresses is not confined to language, technology, or even cognition. It reflects a deeper dynamic by which systems persist through […]
There is a grim existential irony in how those most convinced of possessing an absolute moral truth, acting within a field shaped by fear, reflex, and desire, come to cultivate greed, cruelty, and exclusion in the name of that certainty, mistaking the felt coherence of dominance for righteousness, and remaining largely unaware that what they […]
Heatwaves injure by differential, not by degree, through the lag between what a system is tuned to sustain and what it is suddenly made to carry. After a couple of days over 40 °C the city is quiet this morning, and not only because it is Sunday. Everything is settling back toward itself. Movement slows […]
Many of the critically defining problems of our time resist piecemeal treatment. Understanding consciousness, curing cancer, alleviating poverty, managing environmental sustainability, mitigating climate change without triggering new failures, securing digital infrastructure, managing geopolitical instability, slowing social decay, and containing the adverse effects of runaway technological growth are not separate challenges but tightly coupled dynamical processes. […]
Humanity is moving through a narrow and dangerous passage. Environmental damage, political instability, rapid technological change, and economic pressure are all rising at once. Energy use is climbing, ecosystems are under strain, information systems are flooded with polarising noise, and institutions are struggling to keep pace. A major driver of this acceleration is corporate greed […]
Meaning arises and endures only because experience and symbolic encoding remain out of phase, and when technology collapses that difference into immediacy and semiotic isomorphism, thought and behaviour collapse into preordained reflex, short-circuiting cognitive voltage into volatility, simplicity, and coercive transmissibility, turning language into a direct instrument of behavioural modulation.
By the time you understand how academia actually works, you are already trapped inside it. That is the trick. Entry is sold as freedom of thought, critique, and discovery. What you encounter instead is a dense lattice of reputation management, contractual silence, risk avoidance, and procedural obedience. Say the wrong thing, name the wrong problem, […]
I no longer believe the world can be healed by better arguments, smarter policies, cleaner data, or more sophisticated machines. These things mostly just turn the volume up on whatever is already broken. The deeper condition is non-closure: the simple fact that complex systems do not stabilise by resolving tension, but by holding it in […]
Entropy, and only entropy, is king. Highly ordered information systems do not rest on harmony. They are grounded in dissonance, volatility, and conflict, just as is extreme wealth sustained by the presence of its antithesis, the incoherent becoming, and always having been, the transmission medium of its inverse. This is not metaphor. It is structural. […]
The unconscious is not a hidden chamber beneath awareness, nor a secondary mind running in parallel. It is the emergent interior of dynamical, adaptive, relational complexity itself. It is what complex systems feel like from the inside. Any system capable of learning, anticipation, coordination, and self-regulation must generate internal structure that cannot be fully present […]
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