Re: Cybernetic Communications • SU
One thing that interests me here is the relation between narratives and navigation. Navigation has to do with how we move through actual state spaces while narratives are the tales we tell about past adventures and what we may have learned from them by way of guiding future ventures.
Navigation has its local (individual, immediate) and global (general, ultimate) aspects but it tends to lose its point if it does not keep at least one eye to present business. Purloining a paradigm from physics it keeps watch over the bearings of local and global purposes on each other with instruments analogous to differential and integral calculus.
Narratives, in contrast, inhabiting as they do the semiotic plane of signs and symbols, have a tendency to detach themselves from the matter at hand, to become autonomous, to create worlds of fantasy all their own, and even to spin altogether out of control.
So we have to watch out for that …
Resources
- Differential Logic • Primer
- Differential Logic • Introduction
- Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
cc: Systems Science • Structural Modeling • Ontolog Forum • Laws of Form • Cybernetics
where 
is the object domain (think universe of discourse) and 
and 
are domains of signs (think channels or languages) being used to talk and think about 
is most often applied in one of two ways.
In cases where 
we are often concerned with transformations taking place within a single set of signals and we may write 
to signify our focus on sign relational triples of the form 
where 
is a sign that follows 
in a logical or temporal sequence, in short, where 
mostly just because I find that convenient in later developments.
Inquiry Into Inquiry 