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Hamlet On The Holodeck
Negative views of digital storytelling
The feely [with reference to what described by Huxley in Brave New World] offers an opposing image of a sensation-based storytelling medium that is intrinsically degrading, fragmenting, and destructive of meaning, a medium whose success implies the death of the great traditions…
Le Cose Su Cui Hanno Torto Gli Italiani - Il Post
Gli italiani sono ignoranti
Ipsos Mori, una società britannica che si occupa di sondaggi e ricerche di mercato, ha recentemente pubblicato alcuni sondaggi effettuati in 14 nazioni diverse riguardo alcune statistiche del proprio paese. Agli intervistati – un migliaio circa per la maggior parte dei paesi…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Consensual behaviour (linguistic behaviour)
Consensual behaviour is behaviour between two systems as a result of living together. These would not have appeared had they not lived together. The behaviour is contingent upon their ontogenies. These behaviours can be described as interactions in the medium. This consensual…
From linguistic behavior to language
Given sufficient structural plasticity and the continuation of recurrent interactions then we may observe the coordination of behaviour - not only in relation to interactions in the medium but also in relation to these coordinations of actions. That is they coordinate their…
Structural determinism, main points
(1) Interactions in the medium only trigger structural changes of composite unities. (2) The structure of the system fully determines its interactions by specifying the variety of interactions it can undertake. (3) The structure of the system specifies what it will accept as an…
Structural coupling
'Structural Coupling' is a term ( like adaptation ) which is used to refer to the systems structural correspondence with its medium. A structure-determined system is coupled to its domain of existence (medium) as long as its organisation is conserved and also as long as it…