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For the mathematically inclined, " G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form " is

the book of highest recommendation. Conway said of this 1969 treatise

that it was " beautifully written but " content free. " , positing that

the reader IS the content. Writing under the pen name James Keys, GSB

also gave the world his inspired " Only Two Can Play This Game " .

Friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein(enlightened expositer of that " Queen of

Sciences " philosophy, this mathematician/logician develops the most

cogent and forceful scientific development of Non-Duality existent in

the West. Within the theorems, postulates and mathematical structures

of this work, speaks the silent voice of all great revelation. A few

examples of GSB's gems of wisdom follow.

 

" Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is

constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so

much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic

enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in

order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least

one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen. "

 

 

" To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced,

requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not

calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not

talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind

what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread

this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no

guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to

set abut it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged

in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal

opinions which are continually being thrust upon them. "

 

 

" The protologic behind logic determines the logic. Let us find a

protologic and then construct new systems of logic. The Laws of Form

is not a handbook on how to go to far-out spaces, but a handbook on

how to get back once one is there. In the protologic of The Laws of

Form the observer is a marked state (the Brownian operator). The Laws

of Form poses a dilemma: where is the writer and where is the reader?

When one severs a universe by making a distinction, who is doing the

severing? Is this the Brownian operator, the marked states and voids

alternating ad infinitum? Alternatively, is the one making the

severance separate from this system? Is he creating (with a

continuous consciousness) discontinuous universes? "

 

From the foregoing quotations can be deduced the fact as primal

truth, that with the first distinction, arise all selves and all

worlds. That as J. G. Gallimore stated, " our self image is your

pattern!...Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity

belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your

patterns leads your life. " . What is Is and What is not Is Not.Further

to this as Wittgenstein said, " Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one

must be silent. "

 

............bob>>>,,,.>>