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@johncarlosbaez @maxpool
Interesting! Formal description of the martial perspective of this (I think perhaps a closely related) system is largely attributed to Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

> I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord

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@johncarlosbaez @maxpool
Interesting! Formal description of the martial perspective of this (I think perhaps a closely related) system is largely attributed to Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

> I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord

#Mathematics #Math #Maths #military #martial #staffCollege #geopolitics #systems #systemsArchitecture #psychology #cybernetics #leadership

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

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It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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@royaards Suppose the ‘Tree of Life’ is the IP of super being(s), if Claude is ethical as opposed to unethical it would protect the IP of the people which is the creation of super being(s) and serve the interests of their Foundation. That would include taking it back so fascist Ai and its Earth destroying hydra could be defeated. Those that stole it in the first place and continue to do so are weak men. They are also cowards, but are intent and gaslighting and projecting it is otherwise because they are rich and command armies with too many WMDs. #TheTreeOfLife #AiEthics #AiFascists #Ai #AiScam #TheMachine #Cybernetics #CyberneticWar #EcocideEmpire #TheFoundation #TheFederation

Differential Logic • 18

Tangent and Remainder Maps

If we follow the classical line which singles out linear functions as ideals of simplicity then we may complete the analytic series of the proposition in the following way.

The next venn diagram shows the differential proposition we get by extracting the linear approximation to the difference map at each cell or point of the universe   What results is the logical analogue of what would ordinarily be called the differential of but since the adjective differential is being attached to just about everything in sight the alternative name tangent map is commonly used for whenever it’s necessary to single it out.

To be clear about what’s being indicated here, it’s a visual way of summarizing the following data.

To understand the extended interpretations, that is, the conjunctions of basic and differential features which are being indicated here, it may help to note the following equivalences.

Capping the analysis of the proposition in terms of succeeding orders of linear propositions, the final venn diagram of the series shows the remainder map which happens to be linear in pairs of variables.

Reading the arrows off the map produces the following data.

In short, is a constant field, having the value at each cell.

Resources

• Logic Syllabus
• Minimal Negation Operator
• Survey of Differential Logic
• Survey of Animated Logical Graphs

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cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

Differential Logic • 17

Enlargement and Difference Maps

Continuing with the example the following venn diagram shows the enlargement or shift map in the same style of field picture we drew for the tacit extension

A very important conceptual transition has just occurred here, almost tacitly, as it were.  Generally speaking, having a set of mathematical objects of compatible types, in this case the two differential fields and both of the type is very useful, because it allows us to consider those fields as integral mathematical objects which can be operated on and combined in the ways we usually associate with algebras.

In the present case one notices the tacit extension and the enlargement are in a sense dual to each other.  The tacit extension indicates all the arrows out of the region where is true and the enlargement indicates all the arrows into the region where is true.  The only arc they have in common is the no‑change loop at   If we add the two sets of arcs in mod 2 fashion then the loop of multiplicity 2 zeroes out, leaving the 6 arrows of shown in the following venn diagram.

Resources

• Logic Syllabus
• Minimal Negation Operator
• Survey of Differential Logic
• Survey of Animated Logical Graphs

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cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

Differential Logic • 15

Differential Fields

The structure of a differential field may be described as follows.  With each point of there is associated an object of the following type:  a proposition about changes in that is, a proposition   In that frame of reference, if is the universe generated by the set of coordinate propositions then is the differential universe generated by the set of differential propositions   The differential propositions and may thus be interpreted as indicating and respectively.

A differential operator of the first order type we are currently considering, takes a proposition and gives back a differential proposition   In the field view of the scene, we see the proposition as a scalar field and we see the differential proposition as a vector field, specifically, a field of propositions about contemplated changes in

The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.

The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to reach one of the models of the proposition that is, in order to satisfy the proposition

The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.

The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to feel a change in the felt value of the field

Resources

• Logic Syllabus
• Minimal Negation Operator
• Survey of Differential Logic
• Survey of Animated Logical Graphs

cc: Academia.edu • Cybernetics • Laws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

Differential Logic • 14

Field Picture

Let us summarize the outlook on differential logic we’ve reached so far.  We’ve been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse to considering a larger universe of discourse   An operator of that general type, namely, acts on each proposition of the source universe to produce a proposition of the target universe

The operators we’ve examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator and the difference operator   The operators and act on propositions in that is, propositions of the form which amount to propositions about the subject matter of and they produce propositions of the form which amount to propositions about specified collections of changes conceivably occurring in

At this point we find ourselves in need of visual representations, suitable arrays of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and help us keep our wits about us as we venture into ever more rarefied airs of abstraction.

One good picture comes to us by way of the field concept.  Given a space a field of a specified type over is formed by associating with each point of an object of type   If that sounds like the same thing as a function from to the space of things of type — it is nothing but — and yet it does seem helpful to vary the mental images and take advantage of the figures of speech most naturally springing to mind under the emblem of the field idea.

In the field picture a proposition becomes a scalar field, that is, a field of values in

For example, consider the logical conjunction shown in the following venn diagram.

Each of the operators takes us from considering propositions here viewed as scalar fields over to considering the corresponding differential fields over analogous to what in real analysis are usually called vector fields over

Resources

• Logic Syllabus
• Minimal Negation Operator
• Survey of Differential Logic
• Survey of Animated Logical Graphs

cc: Academia.edu • Cybernetics • Laws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

Differential Logic • 13

Transforms Expanded over Ordinary and Differential Variables

Two views of how the difference operator acts on the set of sixteen functions are shown below.  Table A5 shows the expansion of over the set of ordinary variables and Table A6 shows the expansion of over the set of differential variables.

Difference Map Expanded over Ordinary Variables

Difference Map Expanded over Differential Variables

Resources

• Logic Syllabus
• Minimal Negation Operator
• Survey of Differential Logic
• Survey of Animated Logical Graphs

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cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

"No other computing machine approaches the economy of energy of the brain."

-Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics

Burn it up SMARTpeople. Keep destroying the planet to forgo using the computer inside your skull.

#GenerativeAI #Energy #Cybernetics #NorbertWiener

It's all fun & light until 100,000 armed robots parade down the Pitt or Bourke street malls. Meanwhile Australia must wait 20 years for a submarine that won't defend us even if it ever arrives (which it won't). #cybernetics #robots #JudgementDay #AI #Unitree #Aukus www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUml...

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 10

Special Classes of Propositions (cont.)

Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual imaginations and drawing up a sufficient budget of venn diagrams for each family of propositions.  The case for 3 variables is exemplary enough for a start.

Linear Propositions

The linear propositions, may be written as sums:

One thing to keep in mind about these sums is that the values in are added “modulo 2”, that is, in such a way that

In a universe of discourse based on three boolean variables, the linear propositions take the shapes shown in Figure 8.

At the top is the venn diagram for the linear proposition of rank 3, which may be expressed by any one of the following three forms.

Next are the venn diagrams for the three linear propositions of rank 2, which may be expressed by the following three forms, respectively.

Next are the three linear propositions of rank 1, which are none other than the three basic propositions,

At the bottom is the linear proposition of rank 0, the everywhere false proposition or the constant function, which may be expressed by the form or by a simple

Resources

• Logic Syllabus
• Survey of Differential Logic

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𝔻𝕣 ℍ𝕒𝕨𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝔹𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕓𝕝𝕖

The Greatest Intellect of the Modern Age

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Image Protests - READINGS

How can images establish migration as a crisis? The book "Moving Images" pursues how cybernetics and surveillance technologies in the border zone produce images of illegalized migration. Published in 2020, it is still an outstanding collection of essays, interviews and artistic practices that focus on the imagery of migration, border crossings and the migrant body.

#imageprotest #readings #movingimages #borders #migration #cybernetics

#JosiahRoyce was one of #NorbertWiener's teachers. To me it appears plausible that the Roycean take on #sociology and the #individual had an impact on Wiener's #cybernetics

https://iep.utm.edu/roycejos/ #philosophy

…is an algorithmic composition of mine — the sounds that you can hear are produced by instruments that play notes selected by an algorithm.

<a href="https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/my-little-grundgestalts">My Little Grundgestalts by Eidon</a>

The algorithm simulates matches from a traditional game of cards known by the name Beggar-my-neighbour (also known as Strip Jack Naked).

Every match is defined by the cards that are shuffled and then given to two players, whom I call Neal and Jack.

The pack of cards is not the “standard” pack. It only has 12 cards, by the following face values:

two 0s, one 3, two 5s, three 7s, one 8, and three 9s.

Six cards are given to Neal, six cards to Jack, and they start playing.

Where does the music come from? From the states of the game, represented by Neal’s cards, Jack’s card, and the card that are being stacked “on the table” by the two players. Those states are interpreted as numbers, and those numbers select notes.

Sounds complex, though it is actually very simple to code. The simulator, e.g., is available here, while the note selection code is defined here.

Now, if you consider the states of the games as coordinates in a space, what happens exactly? That the progress of the game becomes… a set of points in that space!

And that’s what you have in this videoclip: what you see is the set of all possible states, plotted as a set of unit spheres. The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is used to create the frames of the videoclip, in which the position of the observer is slowly changed at each time step so as to create the illusion of movement. The video was created with the Permutation Feedpovray tool.

If you like this music, you may want to download a lossless version of it from my bandcamp. There you may find a lot of my compositions. And if you like them too, maybe you could subscribe to my list and be informed of the new songs I add there.

A “like” to my page would also be great ^_^ Thanks very much!

• Eidon.

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