Category Archives: Cybernetics

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology.  In my studies it led me from math to psych and back again, with sidelong glances at the history of democratic governance.  Its … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

December 19, 2011 In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways.  Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors? Plato • … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

THE SOCIAL COMPACT If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms: “Each of us puts his person and all his power in common … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of … Continue reading →

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 37

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Foreshadowing Transformations • Extensions and Projections of Discourse And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, … Continue reading →

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 36

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Transformations of Discourse It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to … Continue reading →

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 35

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Example 2. Drives and Their Vicissitudes (concl.) Applied to the example of ‑gear curves, the indexing scheme results in the data of the next two Tables, showing one period for each orbit. The states in each orbit are listed as … Continue reading →

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 34

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Example 2. Drives and Their Vicissitudes (cont.) With a little thought it is possible to devise a canonical indexing scheme for the states in differential logical systems.  A scheme of that order allows for comparing changes of state in universes … Continue reading →

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 33

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Example 2. Drives and Their Vicissitudes (cont.) Expressed in the language of drives and gears our next Example may be described as the family of fourth‑gear curves through the fourth extension   Those are the trajectories generated subject to the … Continue reading →

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