Category Archives: Cybernetics

Peirce and Democracy • 2

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Helmut Raulien • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey The essential reading for understanding the unbridled avarice of capitalism — how the Gospel Of Greed takes root in the hearts of those who set … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2

Posted on December 19, 2016 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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Peirce and Democracy • 1

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Jon Awbrey In my mind the connection between Peirce and Democracy has long revolved around the concept of representation. Representation in its semiotic sense has to do with signs that represent pragmatic objects … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1

Posted on March 13, 2016 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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Homunculomorphisms • 2

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: John Baez • The Internal Model Principle There’s a far-ranging discussion that takes off from this point, touching on links among analogical reasoning, arrows and functors, cybernetic images, iconic versus symbolic representations, mental models, systems simulations, etc., and just … Continue reading →

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Homunculomorphisms • 1

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: John Baez • The Internal Model Principle Ashby’s book was my own first introduction to cybernetics and I recently returned to his discussion of regulation games in connection with some issues in Peirce’s theory of inquiry. In that context … Continue reading →

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Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems • 1

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

I finally finished retyping the bibliography to my systems engineering proposal that had gotten lost in a move between computers, so here is a link to the OEIS Wiki copy. Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems • Bibliography This may be of … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 8

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • (1) • (2) Just to review, we were looking at Ashby’s example of a regulation game as given below. I observed that this gives us a triadic relation whose triples are listed next. Sungchul Ji … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 7

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Sungchul Ji I invited readers to consider Ashby’s example of a regulation game as a triadic relation whose triples are given by either one of the following tables. Sungchul Ji asked a rather good question … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 6

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Just enough time for an incidental observation. Consider the table Ashby uses to describe his first example of a regulation game. A table like that is a compact way of describing a triadic relation, in this case a relation whose … Continue reading →

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