Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

It is common in formal settings to speak of interpretation as if it created a direct connection from the signs of a formal language to the objects of the intended domain, in effect, as if it determined the denotative component … Continue reading →

Alas, and yet what are you, my written and painted thoughts!  It is not long ago that you were still so many‑coloured, young and malicious, so full of thorns and hidden spices you made me sneeze and laugh — and … Continue reading →

Re: Cactus Language • Mechanics 4 The following Table summaries the mechanics of the parsing rules given in the previous post. A substructure of a painted and rooted cactus is defined recursively as follows.  Starting from the root node of … Continue reading →

To develop a parser for cactus languages in a functional programming style takes a way to express the description of a PARC in terms of its nodes, by recursion from the root up.  That requires each node to be specified … Continue reading →

Although the definition of a cactus graph lobe in terms of its intrinsic structural components is logically sufficient it is also useful to characterize the structure of a lobe in extrinsic relational terms, that is, to view the structure that … Continue reading →

The structure of a painted cactus, insofar as it presents itself to the visual imagination, can be described as follows.  The overall structure, as given by its underlying graph, falls within the species of graph commonly known as a rooted … Continue reading →

Re: Cactus Language • Stylistics 1 Re: Cybernetics • Shann Turnbull ST: How does your posting meet the test of being relevant to the Wiener definition of Cybernetic? Cybernetics can explain how all living things are self‑regulating, self‑governing and to … Continue reading →

We are only now beginning to see how this works.  Clearly one of the mechanisms for picking a reality is the sociohistorical sense of what is important — which research program, with all its particularity of knowledge, seems most fundamental, … Continue reading →