#processthinking — Public Fediverse posts

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

— Tolkien • The Hobbit

Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

#Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

— Tolkien • The Hobbit

Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

#Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

— Tolkien • The Hobbit

Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

#Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

— Tolkien • The Hobbit

Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

#Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

— Tolkien • The Hobbit

Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

#Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

@FrohlichMarcel

Pluralism is indeed fine from a pragmatic point of view, as long as you remember that there is only process underneath and things are just slow processes at the particular time scale you are considering them! 😉

#ProcessThinking FTW

@FrohlichMarcel

Pluralism is indeed fine from a pragmatic point of view, as long as you remember that there is only process underneath and things are just slow processes at the particular time scale you are considering them! 😉

#ProcessThinking FTW

@FrohlichMarcel

Pluralism is indeed fine from a pragmatic point of view, as long as you remember that there is only process underneath and things are just slow processes at the particular time scale you are considering them! 😉

#ProcessThinking FTW

@FrohlichMarcel

Pluralism is indeed fine from a pragmatic point of view, as long as you remember that there is only process underneath and things are just slow processes at the particular time scale you are considering them! 😉

#ProcessThinking FTW

@FrohlichMarcel

Pluralism is indeed fine from a pragmatic point of view, as long as you remember that there is only process underneath and things are just slow processes at the particular time scale you are considering them! 😉

#ProcessThinking FTW

@NicoleCRust @knutson_brain

Probably different people draw the distinction differently. Coming from a #Peirce #Whitehead #Pragmatism #ProcessThinking tradition, I would view computations as processes.

For example, from that perspective a process like #Inquiry gets equal billing with the corresponding product we all know and love as #Knowledge and maybe even appears more fundamental.

@NicoleCRust @knutson_brain

Probably different people draw the distinction differently. Coming from a #Peirce #Whitehead #Pragmatism #ProcessThinking tradition, I would view computations as processes.

For example, from that perspective a process like #Inquiry gets equal billing with the corresponding product we all know and love as #Knowledge and maybe even appears more fundamental.

@NicoleCRust @knutson_brain

Probably different people draw the distinction differently. Coming from a #Peirce #Whitehead #Pragmatism #ProcessThinking tradition, I would view computations as processes.

For example, from that perspective a process like #Inquiry gets equal billing with the corresponding product we all know and love as #Knowledge and maybe even appears more fundamental.

@NicoleCRust @knutson_brain

Probably different people draw the distinction differently. Coming from a #Peirce #Whitehead #Pragmatism #ProcessThinking tradition, I would view computations as processes.

For example, from that perspective a process like #Inquiry gets equal billing with the corresponding product we all know and love as #Knowledge and maybe even appears more fundamental.

@NicoleCRust @knutson_brain

Probably different people draw the distinction differently. Coming from a #Peirce #Whitehead #Pragmatism #ProcessThinking tradition, I would view computations as processes.

For example, from that perspective a process like #Inquiry gets equal billing with the corresponding product we all know and love as #Knowledge and maybe even appears more fundamental.