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March 23, 2026Open Access

Collapsing Civilization: The Downside of Information

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DBDenis Bailey

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Overview

Demonstrates the structural failure of meaning in civilization, indicating implications for coordination and institutions.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how information affects meaning and social relations within civilization.
  • Analysis of the relationship between meaning, contact, and information environments.
  • Examination of structural failure modes in societal contexts.
  • Evaluation of the implications of cognition shifting from meaning to knowing.
  • Identified that the collapse of meaning leads to loss of shared context and coordination among institutions.
  • Showed that this collapse is not purely psychological or cultural but fundamentally relational.
  • Proposed that restoring contact can reverse the structural failure and rebuild civilization.

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Denis Bailey (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c08b86a48f6b84677f8da2https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19152265
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