We are stereo.

29Apr06

Niccolas Franz wrote in the lawsofform mailinglist (2006-04-23):
You [...] are within you no less then two. It must be in order that you are able to draw a distinction between two which is what any distinction is when drawn. We are stereo.

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Das Subjekt als Ort zu denken (German citation)

26Apr06

"Das Subjekt als Ort zu denken, bedeutet nicht allein, es zu verräumlichen, seiner wie immer behaupteten Selbstpräsenz zu entreißen und das Außen, die Veräußerung als das ihm Wesenhafte zu begreifen; es bedeutet ferner, einen Raum anzunehmen, der dem Subjekt wenn nicht vorgängig, so doch gleichursprünglich ist, indem er es im Verweis auf andere Orte lokalisiert [...]

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Anticipation and the Non-linear Dynamics of Meaning-Processing in Social Systems

26Apr06

Loet Leydesdorff published a new paper at http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/durban06/

Abstract
Social order does not exist as a stable phenomenon, but can be considered as “an order of reproduced expectations.” When anticipations operate upon one another, they can generate a non-linear dynamics which processes meaning. Although specific meanings can be stabilized, for example in social institutions, all meaning arises [...]

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Catjects

24Apr06

http://journal.systemone.at/spaces/journal/nodes/2006-04-24-catjects/
Journal entry about Subjects Objects Catjects System One
Written by Dirk Baecker on April 24 10:07
What if we extend talking about catjects to talking about Pile_Objects?
See the previous entry "What is a Pile_Object?" in my blog. 

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What is a Pile_Object?

23Apr06

Proutskova 2004 – The Pile System is probably one of the best introductory Pile papers. But, as Polina wrote (on page 2, third paragraph),
"… it is not the only possible approach to PILE, and being fixated only on the tree representation can be misleading, because it cannot be used to represent the growth of the [...]

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Wikipedia³

23Apr06

http://labs.systemone.at/wikipedia3
Wikipedia³ is a conversion of the English Wikipedia into RDF. System One provides Wikipedia³ in all major RDF serialization formats: RDF/XML, Turtle and N-Triples.
Let's think about a Pile agent capable of reading these formats.

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Reformulating the Map Color Theorem

23Apr06

A post to the [lawsofform] mailing list:
http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0112266
Reformulating the Map Color Theorem
Louis H. Kauffman
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract
This paper discusses reformulations of the problem of coloring plane maps with four colors. We include discussion of the Eliahou-Kryuchkov conjecture, the Penrose formula, the vector cross product formulation and the reformulations [...]

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… to move to a different computing paradigm

21Apr06

Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang (2004) wrote in their book "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" [ISBN 0-5216-3503-9] on page 4:
"One possible solution to the problem posed by the eventual failure of Moore's law is to move to a different computing paradigm. One such paradigm is provided by the theory of quantum computation, which [...]

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Logic of Forms and lambda calculus

14Apr06

Loet Leydesdorff wrote (in the Luhmann mailing list):
"Beyond Varela, it has been Louis Kauffman who has taken lambda calculus to its consequences. The lambda calculus was developed in a series of papers with Goguen. Kauffman coauthored with Varela a paper entitled "Form dynamics" in the Journal of Social and Biological Structures (1984). There is a [...]

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Quantum Computation as Geometry

14Apr06

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5764/1133 :
"Quantum computers hold great promise for solving interesting computational problems, but it remains a challenge to find efficient quantum circuits that can perform these complicated tasks. Here we show that finding optimal quantum circuits is essentially equivalent to finding the shortest path between two points in a certain curved geometry. By recasting the problem [...]

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