Category Archives: Reciprocity

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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C.S. Peirce : Information = Comprehension × Extension

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • A Most Perplexing Mystery The inverse relationship between symmetry and diversity — that we see for example in the lattice-inverting map of a Galois correspondence — is a variation on an old theme … Continue reading →

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