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The "Extended_Brain" Substack website focuses on the interconnected topics of thinking, knowledge, creativity, and sense-making. The content explores these themes through various lenses
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The Shape of What Isn’t There (opens the original)
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What is Negative Space?The concept of negative space is ancient. Laozi had a theory of usefulness. Thirty spokes converge on a hub, he wrote, but it's the hole through the hub that makes the wheel useful. A pot is useful because of its hollowness. A room is useful because of the space where nothing is.<div cl
Nature speaks in gradients; meaning speaks in boundaries. (opens the original)
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“Nature speaks in gradients; meaning speaks in boundaries”is the key to Howard Pattee’s epistemic cut and the foundation of the WRRw loop of lived interpretation. [Note: For a background on the WRRw loop read my previous post: Surviving the AI Age Needs a Stake, Not a Story.]At bottom, the world is continuous. Physics and chemistry know only more or less kinetic energy, diffusion, rising and falli
Surviving the AI Age Needs a Stake, Not a Story (opens the original)
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The Loop and the Cut (opens the original)
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I. What the claim isMeaning is not a thing sitting in a molecule, a brain, or a file. It is not a static code or a pattern you can freeze and still call alive. Interpretation is something organized matter does in time: it writes constraints, reads them as instructions, then rewrites them so the next reading is already different. Write, read, rewrite. That cycle is the load-bearing fact. The question it answers is simple to state and hard to finish: what is meaning in biological terms, and what s
Tensive Governance: How to Hold a World Together When the Center Won't Stand (opens the original)
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Note: The following essay is an AI-generated work of design fiction tackling governance, AI, and the meaning crisis. Key concepts—including the central theme of Tensegrity, “sacred slack,” “hybrid elites,” and “transparent options”—were conceived entirely by the AI, as were world-building elements like the Nigerian Loom, Singaporean hybrids, and North Sea floating data centers.Surprisingly, this AI narrative transcends pure rationality, weaving in a distinct emotional resonance. Additionally, th
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