Category Archives: Inquiry Driven Systems

Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 4

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems Survival 10/5.[cont.]   Now regard the system as one of parts in communication.  In the previous section the diagram of immediate effects (of cat and mouse) was (or could be regarded as) We are now considering the … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 3

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems Survival 10/5.   What is it survives, over the ages?  Not the individual organism, but certain peculiarly well compounded gene-patterns, particularly those that lead to the production of an individual that carries the gene-pattern well protected … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 2

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems Survival 10/4.   What has just been said is well enough known.  It enables us, however, to join these facts on to the ideas developed in this book and to show the connexion exactly. For consider … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 1

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems 10/3.   The foundation.   Let us start at the beginning.  The most basic facts in biology are that this earth is now two thousand million years old, and that the biologist studies mostly that which … Continue reading →

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Ontologies As Systems • Comment 1

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson The reason I’ve been maintaining an interdisciplinary perspective in my postings to the Ontolog Forum, Structural Modeling, and Systems Science groups is because each one stresses a distinct but necessary aspect of a systems … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 27

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! I took a look at Avi’s paper “On the Nature of the Theory of Computation” (OtNotToC).  There is … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 26

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! Projects giving a central place to computation in scientific inquiry go back to Hobbes and Leibniz, at least, … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 3

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio Partly this discussion and partly just the mood I’m in brought to mind a motley assortment of old reminiscences.  My first years in college I oscillated (or vacillated) between math and physics, eventually … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 2

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio Synchronicity being what it is, here for your contemplation are two pictures from a current discussion on Facebook. See Tables 8 and 9 in the following article and section. Application of Higher Order … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 1

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Sowa My first year at college the university held a cross-campus colloquium taking its theme from C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures about the need for and difficulties of cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration in our day.  The university … Continue reading →

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