Guest guest Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Hi Bob, I first became aware of the " Laws of Form " circa 1970, via a review in the Whole Earth Catalog. I subsequently found it in the University of Arizona library and became quite fascinated. Since my major was mathematics and my special interest was foundations of mathematics, the book was all the more relevant to my interests, but it was the mystical implications that impacted me the most at that time. It was a bridge, as it were, between my mystical investigations of that period -- based on my own experiences but also writers such a John Brockman and Wei Wu Wei -- and my interest in the foundations of mathematics. It is interesting that you mention Wittgenstein, as I was also deeply investigating his Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics during that period. Looking back it is astonishing to note what a constellation of key influences were coming to bear all during that one period of a few years. A couple of years ago I became aware of a called: lawsofform/ I joined back then but never contributed and read only a few of the messages. However, I found a number of interesting papers in the Files section, particularly a number of papers in pdf from by a William Bricken. I hadn't really looked at those papers, though, until seeing this message of yours prompted me to go take a look. He has some very clear expositions there, including some about " Boundary Logic " , which is one formalization of GSB's calculus. There is also a paper there by him about " Distinction Networks " , which applies boundary logic to " Asynchronous networks of distinctions as a model of computation. " It is fun stuff. Bill PS: I had no idea that GSB knew Wittgenstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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