#minimalnegationoperators — Public Fediverse posts

Reflective Interpretive Frameworks • Incident 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/08/27/reflective-interpretive-frameworks-incident-2/

Re: Terence Tao • Modular Arithmetic Challenge
• https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/modular-arithmetic-challenge/
• https://competition.sair.foundation/competitions/modular-arithmetic-challenge/overview

The Modular Arithmetic Challenge asks a simple question:

• Can a neural network learn to do modular multiplication efficiently?

Incidental Reflection 1 —

There are alternative models of neural networks which do not depend on threshold neurons and endlessly fiddling with weights.

Incidental Reflection 2 —

The series of three blog posts linked below present a case study comparing two ways of handling a classic example from the Parallel Distributed Processing paradigm, namely, the “Jets and Sharks” database problem, first taking up the original treatment by McClelland and Rumelhart and then proceeding according to a program I developed for propositional logic modeling. The latter method makes use of ideas from Grossberg's competition‑cooperation and winner‑take‑all dynamics, but is purely propositional‑logic based, involving no extraneous weights.

Theme One Program • Jets and Sharks
(1) https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/06/20/theme-one-program-jets-and-sharks-1-a/
(2) https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/06/22/theme-one-program-jets-and-sharks-2-a/
(3) https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/06/23/theme-one-program-jets-and-sharks-3-a/

Resources —

Survey of Theme One Program
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/06/survey-of-theme-one-program-7/

Differential Analytic Turing Automata
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Analytic_Turing_Automata_%E2%80%A2_Overview

#Peirce #HigherOrderSignRelations #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #Logic #Mathematics
#Recursion #Reflection #RelationTheory #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
#PropositionalModels #MinimalNegationOperators #DifferentialAnalyticTuringAutomata
#CactusGraphs #CactusLanguage #DifferentialLogic #NeuralNetworks #SequenceLearning

@albertcardona @NicoleCRust @complexsystems @cogneurophys @PessoaBrain @SussilloDavid @carlosbrody @Neurograce @neuralreckoning @tyrell_turing @DrYohanJohn @cian @WiringtheBrain @tdverstynen @neuralengine

I'll just tag this for later when I've had a chance to collect my thoughts.

#WinnerTakeAll #Grossberg #CompetitionCooperation
#McClelland #Rumelhart #ParallelDistributedProcessing
#CactusLanguage #LogicalGraphs #MinimalNegationOperators

#ThemeOneProgram • #JetsAndSharks 1.3
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/08/25/theme-one-program-jets-and-sharks-1/

The manner of representation may be illustrated by transcribing a well-known example from the #ParallelDistributedProcessing literature (#McClelland and #Rumelhart 1988) and working through a couple of the associated exercises as translated into #LogicalGraphs.

#Logic #Peirce #Semiotics #Semiosis
#Grossberg #CompetitionCooperation
#GraphTheory #ModelTheory #ProofTheory
#LogicalCacti #MinimalNegationOperators

#ThemeOneProgram • #JetsAndSharks 1.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/08/25/theme-one-program-jets-and-sharks-1/

One way to do this is to interpret the blank or #UnmarkedState as the #RestingState of a #NeuralPool, the bound or #MarkedState as its #ActivatedState, and to represent a mutually inhibitory pool of #Neurons \(a,b,c\) by the proposition \(\texttt{(}a\texttt{,}b\texttt{,}c\texttt{)}.\)

#Logic #LogicalGraphs #Peirce
#Grossberg #McClelland #Rumelhart
#GraphTheory #ModelTheory #ProofTheory
#LogicalCacti #MinimalNegationOperators

#ThemeOneProgram • #JetsAndSharks 1.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/08/25/theme-one-program-jets-and-sharks-1/

Example 5. Jets and Sharks

The #PropositionalCalculus based on #MinimalNegationOperators can be interpreted in a way resembling the logic of #ActivationStates and #CompetitionConstraints in one class of #NeuralNetwork models.

#Logic #LogicalGraphs
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semiosis
#Grossberg #McClelland #Rumelhart
#ParallelDistributedProcessing #PDP
#GraphTheory #ModelTheory #ProofTheory