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  1. Tyson Fury to Zuffa Boxing ‘was an illusion’ as Gypsy King’s manager quashes Dana White promotion deal

    Tyson Fury’s manager has poured cold water on rumours his client has signed with Zuffa Boxing. Fury fuelled…
    #NewsBeep #News #Boxing #AnthonyJoshua #Boxingnews #DanaWhite #SpencerBrown #Sports #TysonFury #UK #UnitedKingdom #ZuffaBoxing
    newsbeep.com/uk/645357/

  2. New: "The Primordial Mark" — one operation (drawing a distinction) generates the ultrametric tree underlying spin glasses, p-adic numbers, QCD jets, and the Classification of Finite Simple Groups.

    The CFSG is exhaust. The engine is the Mark.

    🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20369071

    #LawsOfForm #SpencerBrown #ultrametric #pAdic #CFSG #consilience

  3. New: "The Primordial Mark" — one operation (drawing a distinction) generates the ultrametric tree underlying spin glasses, p-adic numbers, QCD jets, and the Classification of Finite Simple Groups.

    The CFSG is exhaust. The engine is the Mark.

    🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20369071

    #LawsOfForm #SpencerBrown #ultrametric #pAdic #CFSG #consilience

  4. New: "The Primordial Mark" — one operation (drawing a distinction) generates the ultrametric tree underlying spin glasses, p-adic numbers, QCD jets, and the Classification of Finite Simple Groups.

    The CFSG is exhaust. The engine is the Mark.

    🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20369071

    #LawsOfForm #SpencerBrown #ultrametric #pAdic #CFSG #consilience

  5. OSCURA x inU presents Durante and Spencer Brown - 03 May feat. Durante, Spencer Brown, Gav Easby + more

    #SESH #Durante #SpencerBrown #GavEasby

    sesh.sx/e/1612979

  6. Animated Logical Graphs • 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    It's almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce's “Collected Papers” in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for Spencer Brown's “Laws of Form” in the Whole Earth Catalog and I sent off for it right away. I would spend the next decade just beginning to figure out what either one of them was talking about in the matter of logical graphs and I would spend another decade after that developing a program, first in Lisp and then in Pascal, that turned graph‑theoretic data structures formed on their ideas to good purpose as the basis of its reasoning engine.

    I thought it might contribute to a number of long‑running and ongoing discussions if I could articulate what I think I learned from that experience.

    So I'll try to keep focused on that.

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  7. Animated Logical Graphs • 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    It's almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce's “Collected Papers” in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for Spencer Brown's “Laws of Form” in the Whole Earth Catalog and I sent off for it right away. I would spend the next decade just beginning to figure out what either one of them was talking about in the matter of logical graphs and I would spend another decade after that developing a program, first in Lisp and then in Pascal, that turned graph‑theoretic data structures formed on their ideas to good purpose as the basis of its reasoning engine.

    I thought it might contribute to a number of long‑running and ongoing discussions if I could articulate what I think I learned from that experience.

    So I'll try to keep focused on that.

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  8. Animated Logical Graphs • 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    It's almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce's “Collected Papers” in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for Spencer Brown's “Laws of Form” in the Whole Earth Catalog and I sent off for it right away. I would spend the next decade just beginning to figure out what either one of them was talking about in the matter of logical graphs and I would spend another decade after that developing a program, first in Lisp and then in Pascal, that turned graph‑theoretic data structures formed on their ideas to good purpose as the basis of its reasoning engine.

    I thought it might contribute to a number of long‑running and ongoing discussions if I could articulate what I think I learned from that experience.

    So I'll try to keep focused on that.

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  9. Animated Logical Graphs • 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    It's almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce's “Collected Papers” in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for Spencer Brown's “Laws of Form” in the Whole Earth Catalog and I sent off for it right away. I would spend the next decade just beginning to figure out what either one of them was talking about in the matter of logical graphs and I would spend another decade after that developing a program, first in Lisp and then in Pascal, that turned graph‑theoretic data structures formed on their ideas to good purpose as the basis of its reasoning engine.

    I thought it might contribute to a number of long‑running and ongoing discussions if I could articulate what I think I learned from that experience.

    So I'll try to keep focused on that.

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  10. Animated Logical Graphs • 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    It's almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce's “Collected Papers” in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for Spencer Brown's “Laws of Form” in the Whole Earth Catalog and I sent off for it right away. I would spend the next decade just beginning to figure out what either one of them was talking about in the matter of logical graphs and I would spend another decade after that developing a program, first in Lisp and then in Pascal, that turned graph‑theoretic data structures formed on their ideas to good purpose as the basis of its reasoning engine.

    I thought it might contribute to a number of long‑running and ongoing discussions if I could articulate what I think I learned from that experience.

    So I'll try to keep focused on that.

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  11. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce's Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    Double Negation
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Peirce's Law
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Praeclarum Theorema
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Two‑Thirds Majority Function
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    A full discussion of logical graphs can be found in the following article.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    cc: academia.edu/community/ldzadj
    cc: mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/116494
    cc: researchgate.net/post/Animated
    cc: stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/30/a
    cc: groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/a

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  12. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce's Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    Double Negation
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Peirce's Law
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Praeclarum Theorema
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Two‑Thirds Majority Function
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    A full discussion of logical graphs can be found in the following article.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    cc: academia.edu/community/ldzadj
    cc: mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/116494
    cc: researchgate.net/post/Animated
    cc: stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/30/a
    cc: groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/a

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  13. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce's Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    Double Negation
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Peirce's Law
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Praeclarum Theorema
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Two‑Thirds Majority Function
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    A full discussion of logical graphs can be found in the following article.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    cc: academia.edu/community/ldzadj
    cc: mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/116494
    cc: researchgate.net/post/Animated
    cc: stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/30/a
    cc: groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/a

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  14. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce's Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    Double Negation
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Peirce's Law
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Praeclarum Theorema
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Two‑Thirds Majority Function
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    A full discussion of logical graphs can be found in the following article.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    cc: academia.edu/community/ldzadj
    cc: mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/116494
    cc: researchgate.net/post/Animated
    cc: stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/30/a
    cc: groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/a

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  15. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce's Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    Double Negation
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Peirce's Law
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Praeclarum Theorema
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    Two‑Thirds Majority Function
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/wp-cont

    A full discussion of logical graphs can be found in the following article.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    cc: academia.edu/community/ldzadj
    cc: mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/116494
    cc: researchgate.net/post/Animated
    cc: stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/30/a
    cc: groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/a

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  16. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    See the following article for a full discussion of this type of logical graph.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Additional Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  17. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    See the following article for a full discussion of this type of logical graph.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Additional Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  18. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    See the following article for a full discussion of this type of logical graph.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Additional Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  19. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    See the following article for a full discussion of this type of logical graph.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Additional Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  20. Animated Logical Graphs • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/01

    For Your Musement …

    Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic.

    Proof Animations
    oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

    See the following article for a full discussion of this type of logical graph.

    Logical Graphs
    oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs

    Additional Resources —

    Logical Graphs • First Impressions
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/08

    Logical Graphs • Formal Development
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/09

    #Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #Semiotics #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory
    #SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #PropositionalCalculus #ProofAnimations

  21. Spencer Brown’s Gold Star to be the lead promoter for Tyson Fury-Arslanbek Makhmudov

    Brown and Gold Star have enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Queensberry, the UK promoters of Fury since 2018.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Boxing #Boxingnews #BoxingScene #PromoterforTysonFury-ArslanbekMakhmudov #SpencerBrown #Sports #TysonFury #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/470680/

  22. 2026 NFL salary cap: Bills working with murky cap situation in 2026

    The NFL announced that the salary cap will increase to $301.2 million for the 2026 season. The $22…
    #NFL #BuffaloBills #Buffalo #Bills #Football #salarycap #salaryrelief #SpencerBrown #theBills
    rawchili.com/nfl/789818/

  23. 2026 NFL salary cap: Bills working with murky cap situation in 2026

    The NFL announced that the salary cap will increase to $301.2 million for the 2026 season. The $22…
    #NFL #BuffaloBills #Buffalo #Bills #Football #salarycap #salaryrelief #SpencerBrown #theBills
    rawchili.com/nfl/789818/

  24. Brandon Beane breaks down Bills approach to 2026 NFL draft process

    The NFL offseason is picking up, and with the Bills’ brass is evaluating draft prospects after making a…
    #nfl #nfldraft #NFLDraft #brandonbeane #Football #NFL #SpencerBrown #theBills
    rawchili.com/nfl/784762/

  25. Brandon Beane breaks down Bills approach to 2026 NFL draft process

    The NFL offseason is picking up, and with the Bills’ brass is evaluating draft prospects after making a…
    #nfl #nfldraft #NFLDraft #brandonbeane #Football #NFL #SpencerBrown #theBills
    rawchili.com/nfl/784762/

  26. Japan's Qrion returns to Sasha's Last Night On Earth alongside American talent Spencer Brown with the EP, MT.DS. #music #qrion #SpencerBrown #MTDS #lastnightonearth

    evl.one/mtds-ep-by-qrion-spenc

  27. Japan's Qrion returns to Sasha's Last Night On Earth alongside American talent Spencer Brown with the EP, MT.DS. #music #qrion #SpencerBrown #MTDS #lastnightonearth

    evl.one/mtds-ep-by-qrion-spenc

  28. Japan's Qrion returns to Sasha's Last Night On Earth alongside American talent Spencer Brown with the EP, MT.DS. #music #qrion #SpencerBrown #MTDS #lastnightonearth

    evl.one/mtds-ep-by-qrion-spenc

  29. PFF: 5 lowest-graded Buffalo Bills players on offense vs. Jaguars

    The Buffalo Bills opened the NFL playoffs with a wild-card victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars, 27-24, on the road…
    #NFL #BuffaloBills #Buffalo #Bills #Football #GabeDavis #JacksonHawes #JacksonvilleJaguars #JamesCook #ProFootballFocus #RayDavis #SpencerBrown
    rawchili.com/nfl/681967/

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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