Category Archives: Poetry

Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 6

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Publication : An Author’s View Dear Peter, It’s funny you should mention Tennyson’s poem in the context of an author’s view of publication as I once laid out a detailed interpretation of the poem as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogy, C.S. Peirce, Cybernetics, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Logic, Medium = Message, Metaphor, Peirce, Poetry, Quotation, Recursion, Reflection, Semiosis, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Habitations

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Our reach exceeds our rut and yet We grasp but what we drag into it. Re: Scott Aaronson • A Coronavirus Poem

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So Many Modes Of Mathematical Thought

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

So many modes of mathematical thought, So many are learned, so few are taught. There are streams that flow beneath the sea, There are waves that crash upon the strand, Lateral thoughts that spread and meander — Who knows what … Continue reading →

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Iconoclast

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Things thrown out from a center Cooling signs of a central fire Expiring cinders of life within Sent from a star to start again

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Quotiens?

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

How many times do I repeat the same experience? Before I come to see it as the same experience?

Posted in Algorithms, Anamnesis, Arithmetic, Deja Vu, Education, Epistemology, Eternal Return, Inquiry, Learning, Meno, Music, Pattern Recognition, Plato, Poetry, Recursion, Repetition, Rhythm, Teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Poems and Programs

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Words that do … A trendy misunderstanding has reared its head as to what the discipline of computing, indeed the logic of science, are all about.  I blame Penrose, of course, but he is only the most recent promulgator of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Artistic Differences, Computability, Effective Description, Ethics, Existential Choice, Finitude, Form, Imagination, Information, Inquiry, Limitation, Logic of Science, Matter, Mortality, Poetry, Programming, Volition | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment