Hegemony does not turn definer inputs into predictable outputs

Evidence

The impulse responses h(t) or h(n) for a real-time system are always causal; that is, h(·) = 0 when t or n < 0. This means that a physically realizable system does not have information on the future values of its input signal. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 357 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

But it is absurd to think of a purely “objective” prediction. Anybody who makes a prediction has in fact a “programme” for whose victory he is working, and his prediction is precisely an element contributing to that victory. This does not mean that prediction need always be arbitrary and gratuitous, or simply tendentious. Indeed one might say that only to the extent to which the objective aspect of prediction is linked to a programme does it acquire its objectivity: 1. because strong passions are necessary to sharpen the intellect and help make intuition more penetrating; 2. because reality is a product of the application of human will to the society of things (the machine-operator’s to his machine); therefore if one excludes all voluntarist elements, or if it is only other people’s wills whose intervention one reckons as an objective element in the general interplay of forces, one mutilates reality itself. Only the man who wills something strongly can identify the elements which are necessary to the realisation of his will. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 723 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Primary definers frame problems, limiting all subsequent discussion.; Prediction is never neutral but serves the predictor’s programme — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 723; Physically realizable systems cannot respond to future input values — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 357 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Primary definers frame problems, limiting all subsequent discussion. #contradicts (0.75)
• Physically realizable systems cannot respond to future input values #corroborates (0.75) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 357
• Prediction is never neutral but serves the predictor’s programme #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 723
• Symbolic generalization lets power operate without explicit orders being given #expands (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 647