To Dissect a Mockingbird

To Dissect a Mockingbird

[Oliver Bandel]

Hello,

I maybe have mentioned this text a while ago, but maybe not;
so here comes the pointer to an interesting text.

Bcause I now explore Laws of Form in Detail, I remembered this
text, and thought it might of interest for the OCaml/FPL-people.

This text I mean:
  http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/Lambda/index.htm


Someone who knows it or already worked with these graphical
notations of FP-Programs?


Ciao,
   Oliver

Re: [Caml-list] To Dissect a Mockingbird

[Oliver Bandel]

Hello,


On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:15:54PM +0200, Dr. Axel Poign wrote:
> I am the happy owner of a copy of Spencer-Browns book which I got  
> interested in in the early 70's. I actually found the book in  
> Blackwell's in Oxford, where it was in the section "Religions" (nomen  
> est omen?).  Further I own a manuscript on "The Arithmetic of  
> closure" by Francisco Varela

Can you send me a copy of this paper?
(scanned or as paper-copies)?!
(Or at least mention, where to find it (ISBN)?!)



> (then at the Department of Anatomy at  
> the University of Colorado, Denver) who related Spencer-Brown to  
> Scott's work, and finally as a more accessible reference:
> 
> A Calculus for Self-Reference
> Francisco Varela
> Int. Journal General Systems, 1975, Vol.2, p.8-34
> Gordon and Breach Scientific Publishers Ltd.
> Great Britain

This one I have somewhere in my paper copies; I found this article
in a library.

But to understand it, I first have to jump into LoF-details.

Some poeple said they had to re-read this book many times,
until they really understand it.
I hope to be faster here ;-)



> 
> The stuff is quite interesting reading for historical reasons.

Only for that reasons?


LoF seems to be - even if it's mentioned that it's a mathematical book - quite good
for philosophical reasoning, and makes sense in a cybernetics-context
(cybernetics, radical constructivism, Heinz von Foerster, Maturana, ...).

And therefore there is a linkage to Zen/Buddhism
(for example look at Heinz von Foerster's text "Objects: Tokens for Eigen-Behaviors",
 in german: "Gegenstände: greifbare Symbole für (Eigen-)Verhalten").

Also interesting on this topic: Maturana's work.

But before we will be too off-topic, I will stop here. ;-)

Best,
   Oliver Bandel

-- 
"Objectivity is a subject's delusion that
 observing can be done without him."
                        (Heinz von Foerster)

Re: [Caml-list] To Dissect a Mockingbird

[Oliver Bandel]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:50:30PM +0200, Dr. Axel Poign wrote:
[...]
> >Only for that reasons?
> >
> >
> Maybe, I should reread but essentiially, yes, at least from the  
> perspective of semantics of programming languages. In philosophical  
> terms it somewhat compares to Frege's work, which is another good  
> reading.
[...]

Louis H. Kauffman, a mathematician/topologist is working on LoF and
has researched a lot on that topic. 

He sent me this link:  http://www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/Laws.pdf

Ciao,
   Oliver Bandel