On G. Spencer Brown's laws of form.

Some-thing from no-thing: G. Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form

An Esoteric Guide to Spencer-Brown's Laws Of Form

This essay is an exploration of the question “what reflections might result from shining an esoteric/spiritual light upon George Spencer-Brown’s book, Laws of Form?” It is written as an informal guide, a commentary, and a playful esoteric romp with serious detours into epistemology, ontology, and second-order cybernetics. It follows the text of Laws of Form closely from beginning to end, but br...

The Mrs. Browns of Modernism

Information about a form (on the dynamic laws of morphogenesis)

How a developing embryo becomes "informed" about its form?" This problem remains obscure and controversial. We argue that the "information about a form" is distributed throughout three main components: the dynamic laws, the parameters and the initial/boundary conditions. In the absence of a dynamic law two other components are "blind", that is, do not contain any unambiguous information. We pre...

Formal polynomials and the laws of form

This paper discusses the role of formal polynomials as a representation method for logical derivation, as well as their potentialities for expressing certain meta-logical properties and as heuristic devices. We treat as example-cases two intriguing episodes in logical folklore: the ‘laws of form’ of Spencer-Brown and the ‘paradoxes of half -logics’ of J.-Y. Béziau.