from form dynamics
From Louis H. Kauffman and Francisco J. Varela, “Form Dynamics“, J.Social Biol. Struct. 1980 3, pp. 171-206. When discussing the calculus invented by…
Category Archives: books
a calculus for self-reference
Three days ago I finally got hold of a copy of Francisco Varela’s paper “A Calculus for Self-Reference”, Int. J. General Systems, 1975,…
odd quanta
Just finished reading ‘A Shortcut through Time’, by George Johnson, a popular-scientific book explaining some of the ideas behind quantum computing. I thought…
philip k. dick
In order to plug a hole in my erudition I started reading some of Philip K. Dick‘s books. “Time Out of Joint” (1959)…
pict and starting work on #47
very intriguing picture, from: MacKay, D. J. C. and Miller, K. D. (1990),
“Analysis of Linsker’s simulation of Hebbian rules”, Neural Computation, 2:173-187.…
more outsider logic
In a previous post I’ve been discussing the beautiful materializations of the logical notation by Shea Zellweger. I was very much surprised to…
wise words of Nam June Paik
“I also envisage the day when the collaboration of artist and engineer will progress into the unification of artist and engineer into one…