Re: Drives and Their Vicissitudes • Fourth Gear Orbits
Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson

LA:

Some of your diagrams, specifically Figure 16. A Couple of Fourth Gear Orbits, are beginning to look like Heim’s sketches for the structure of the photon.  […]  I can’t quite see the connection, yet, but maybe you can.

Lyle,

There is a curious analogy between the primitive operations which lie at the basis of logical graphs and basic themes of quantum mechanics, for example, the evaluation of a minimal negation operator proceeds in a manner reminiscent of the way a wave function collapses.  That’s something I noticed early on in my work on logical graphs but I haven’t got much further than the mere notice so far.

I confess I’ve never gotten around to tackling Heim’s work — Peirce and Spencer Brown have loaded more than enough on my plate for any one lifetime — I do see lots of partial derivatives so maybe there’s a connection there — if I had to guess I would imagine any structure generated by a differential law as simple as what we have here is bound to find itself inhabiting all sorts of mathematical niches.

Regards,

Jon

Resources

• Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
• Differential Logic • Drives and Their Vicissitudes

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