Category Archives: Cybernetics

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 3

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Hays • How to Fix the College Debt Problem Once we are clear about the principles that govern the role of education in a democratic society then we can begin to reason out optimal ways of providing for … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 2

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Hays • How to Fix the College Debt Problem The rationale for Universal Free Public Education is that a certain level of education is necessary for a person to function as a full-fledged citizen in a well-tempered and … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 1

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

What was it called? — spinthariscope? — it came from a science kit I got as a kid … I might as well jump in medias res … Re: Michael Hays • How to Fix the College Debt Problem Better … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue

Posted on September 1, 2015 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 … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 12

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien Definitions and examples for relation composition and the two most commonly arising types of relation reduction can be found in the following articles. Relation Composition Relation Reduction A previous post on this thread gives … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 11

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien Cf: Relation Reduction • Examples of Projectively Reducible Relations I constructed the “Ann and Bob” examples of sign relations back at the beginning of my Systems Engineering program when I had to explain how … Continue reading →

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Survey of Semiotic Theory Of Information • 1

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 1

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables … Continue reading →

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Survey of Differential Logic • 1

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Differential Logic, material I plan to develop toward a more compact and systematic account. Elements Differential Logic • Introduction Differential Propositional Calculus • Part 1 • Part 2 Differential Logic … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 5

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Howard Pattee At this point we can distinguish two forms of decomposability or reducibility — along with their corresponding negations, indecomposability or irreducibility – that commonly arise. Reducibility under relational composition All triadic relations are irreducible … Continue reading →

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