This article explores a speculative model for understanding why modern civilization often feels "low-resolution" — using the metaphor of JPG (lossy compression) vs. PNG (lossless layers).
It's not a prediction or a claim of truth, but a conceptual lens for thinking about meaning, context, trust, identity, and AI in a period of rapid discontinuity.
The piece introduces three speculative frameworks:
• OntoMesh (8-layer structure of meaning + civilization),
• PTI (Phase Transition of Intelligence),
• HPE (Hybrid Process Ecology), a metaphor for adaptive civilizational systems.
Posting here to invite critical discussion:
Is "lossy vs. lossless" a useful metaphor for technological civilization?
Where does the analogy break? What alternative models make more sense?
Curious to hear perspectives from engineers, researchers, systems thinkers, and skeptics.
nettalk83•43m ago
It's not a prediction or a claim of truth, but a conceptual lens for thinking about meaning, context, trust, identity, and AI in a period of rapid discontinuity.
The piece introduces three speculative frameworks: • OntoMesh (8-layer structure of meaning + civilization), • PTI (Phase Transition of Intelligence), • HPE (Hybrid Process Ecology), a metaphor for adaptive civilizational systems.
Posting here to invite critical discussion: Is "lossy vs. lossless" a useful metaphor for technological civilization? Where does the analogy break? What alternative models make more sense?
Curious to hear perspectives from engineers, researchers, systems thinkers, and skeptics.