Category Archives: Cybernetics

Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 2

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien In systems theory and engineering there is a well-recognized duality or complementarity between the dimensions of Control and Information, frequently cast in terms of action and perception, actuators and detectors, effectors and sensors, and … Continue reading →

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Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy • 2

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: John Baez • Entropy and Information in Biological Systems To develop the concept of evolutionary games as “learning” processes in which information is gained over time. A fund of ideas toward that end can be found in the work … Continue reading →

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Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy • 1

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Stephen Rose Just a note to anchor a series of recurring thoughts that come to mind in relation to a Peirce List discussion of entropy etc., but I won’t have much to say on the bio-chemico-physico-thermo-dynamic … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 6

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Anti-Social Networks Re: Lou Kauffman • Iterants, Imaginaries, Matrices Comments I made elsewhere about computer science and (anti-)social networks have a connection with the work in progress on this thread, so it may steal a march … Continue reading →

Posted in Algorithms, Amphecks, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Cybernetics, Differential Logic, Graph Theory, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Lou Kauffman, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Painted Cacti, Paradox, Peirce, Process Thinking, Propositional Calculus, Spencer Brown, Systems, Time | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

All Process, No Paradox • 5

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

In the midst of this strife, whereat the halls of Ilúvatar shook and a tremor ran out into the silences yet unmoved, Ilúvatar arose a third time, and his face was terrible to behold.  Then he raised up both his … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 4

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Thus began the Days of the Bliss of Valinor; and thus began also the Count of Time. Tolkien • Quenta Silmarillion While looking for something else on the web, I ran across an old note I had written in reply … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 3

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have.  Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. Charles S. Peirce • “Issues of Pragmaticism” … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 2

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

These are the forms of time, which imitates eternity and revolves according to a law of number. Plato • Timaeus Re: Lou Kauffman • Iterants, Imaginaries, Matrices As serendipity would have it, Lou Kauffman, who knows a lot about the … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 1

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Tolkien • The Hobbit Talking about time is a waste of time.  Time … Continue reading →

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What part do arguments from authority play in mathematical reasoning?

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

In forming your answer you may choose to address any or all of the following aspects of the question: Descriptive What part do arguments from authority actually play in mathematical reasoning? Normative What part do arguments from authority ideally play … Continue reading →

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