John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readApr 22, 2024

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If knowledge, the framing of information, is emergent, rather than omniscient, than it is inherently subjective.

The function of the map isn't to describe the territory perfectly, as incorporating more information than is useful to its function and it dissolves back into noise. Whiteout.

An objective point of view is an oxymoron and inherently meaningless, as it has no focus, therefore no structure. What defines, limits and what limits, defines.

Knowledge, the signals we extract from the noise, are what resonates and synchronizes with our prior point of view and accumulated knowledge, supporting and validating both.

Which creates an inconvenience, as that prior framing originates from smaller information bases and potentially flawed premises. Then all the "shut up and calculate" in the world is just so much "garbage in, garbage out."

Necessitating change to happen "one funeral at a time." Paradigm shift. Equilibrium punctuated.

Which also rules out determinism, as the act of determination only occurs as the present. The future is simply not fully computed, as no program can encompass potentially infinite input.

Whiteout.

What should be kept in mind, is the cycling between complexity and simplicity. Chickens and eggs.

As complex systems incorporate conflicting elements, among other reasons, absorbing fragments of prior complex systems, that eventually become unstable.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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