“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all”…
― Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics
“Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler” …
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought”…
― George Orwell, 1984
“A concept is not a mere jumble of particulars — that is only its crudest species. A concept is the living influence upon us of a diagram, or icon, with whose several parts are connected in thought an equal number of feelings or ideas. The law of mind is that feelings and ideas attach themselves in thought so as to form systems. But the icon is not always clearly apprehended. We may not know at all what it is: or we may have learned it by the observation of nature”…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
The Semiotic Industrial Complex
Collective Sensemaking
Please listen to and read:
The Inversion of Democracy - Mike Benz - The Tucker Carlson Podcast [ LINK ]
Dismantling the Illusion: How Information Control Shapes Reality [ LINK ]
AI and Military Tools [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ]
AI and the Risk to Democracy - the Pollution of the Semantic Landscape [ LINK ]
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models [ LINK ]
Hallucination - Legal mistakes of LLMs are pervasive [ LINK ]
Censorship Industrial Complex [ LINK ] [ LINK ]
RMIT and ABC [ LINK ] and Who will fact-check the fact-checkers? [ LINK ]
Mainstream Alternative Media ( MAM ) [ LINK ] and The Implosion of Main Stream Media ( MSM ) [ LINK ]
The Geometric Mind - Spatial structures of thought and meaning space [ LINK ]
The Public Sphere - The Trivium: Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric [ LINK ]
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