Information Theory - The Negative Psychologist

What ‘a rule’? How do rules work? What they do? How do rules get to be rules? These are all questions that we are very unlikely to ask ourselves during...

Information Theory

When We Obey the Rules…

Aug 27. 2016

When we obey the rules we unfailingly get nullified. This is always the way – it couldn't possibly be any other way. Obeying the rules equals falling into the nullification...

Information Theory

False Communication

Aug 14. 2016

The type of communication we are exposed to every day is a degraded currency. It has been degraded to the point at which it is no longer communication at all...

Cosmology, Information Theory

The Flaw in the System

Oct 18. 2015

Logic contains a flaw, the system of thought contains a flaw, the determinate universe contains a flaw. Only it’s not really a flaw because there’s no such thing as logic,...

Information Theory

Adapting to the Digital World

Oct 02. 2015

When we read information in the way that it is meant to be read, in the way that it has been designed to be read, then we become unconscious! Alternatively, we...

Information Theory

Living Life Backwards

Sep 23. 2015

We see everything back-to-front. One way of getting at this is to look at the way we regard causality, and ascribe everything to some kind of causal vector. Alan Watts...

Information Theory

The Mechanism of Forgetting

May 05. 2015

This world in which we live is a place of compulsory forgetting. Forgetting is the law, forgetting is the rule which we are compelled at every step to obey… It doesn’t...

Information Theory

The Non-E World

Apr 01. 2015

The movement towards equilibrium is not movement at all – it is ‘movement towards non-movement’. The movement towards the equilibrium state is a ‘hastening towards the state of staying still’. ...

Information Theory

Moving Out of Equilibrium

Mar 26. 2015

All sorts of possibilities are dangled in front of our noses the whole time, but none of them will lead us out of the equilibrium state. The only possibilities that...

Information Theory, Mental Health

The Causal and the Non-Causal Worlds

Jun 15. 2014

All of the neurotic conditions, without any exception, can be understood by studying the properties of formal systems and applying what we learn to the everyday rational mind. This sounds...

Information Theory

Analogues of Reality

May 20. 2014

Every time we create a formal system, however limited or simplistic it may be, that formal system – strange as may sound – becomes a ‘version’ of reality, an ‘analogue’...