So much to unpack from the Re-braiding Sympoisum#1:”The Split”, held on 25 March 2026, but I’ll jump-in with some explorations on Artorga as a good place to build on? From Symposium #1 – Thank you to fellow attendee Anthony Weiss for making the connection to ARTORGA as being relevant to Re-braiding, and to Bernard Scott’s direct insights on […]
Selection 3 opens with Peirce remarking a critical property of genuine symbols — the class of symbols is not closed under combinations. In particular, there are logical conjunctions of symbols and logical disjunctions of symbols which are not themselves genuine symbols. Applying this paradigm to terms, Peirce introduces two sets of examples under the headings […]
Matthew Shapiro on linkedin: The Mary Parker Follett Foundation / Capacity Building for Participatory Democracy I’m happy to share The Best We Can Do: An Introduction to Designing Our Systems, Together. This unique booklet is an introduction to the participatory design of social and societal systems. Enjoy, and I’d love to hear from you about […]
Over the course of Selection 1 Peirce introduces the ideas he needs to answer stubborn questions about the validity of scientific inference. Briefly put, the validity of scientific inference depends on the ability of symbols to express superfluous comprehension, the measure of which Peirce calls information. Selection 2 sharpens our picture of symbols as general […]
🌍 Cybernetics Live — Wednesday 22 July 2026, 17:00–19:00 BST (online) Have we entered a New Normal? The physics, the feedbacks, the implications and the responses to our changing climate. Speaker: Tom Harris Using the very latest satellite data, Tom will walk through the physics of climate change: how the planet is out of energy […]
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