Abstract This article scrutinizes the history of “esoteric” and “occult” as comparative terms outlines a concrete methodology for their examination potential practical application, based on theoretical framework Global Religious History. My main argument is that are today de facto employed worldwide within beyond academia. Similar to case “religion,” they not result unilateral diffusion “Wester...

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...

Piet J.A.M. Kerkhof and Marcel A.M. Geboers (Transport Phenomena Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands, email: [email protected]) © 2004 Piet J.A.M. Kerkhof & Marcel A.M. Geboers, Prepared for Presentation at AIChE Annual Meeting, November 8, 2004, Session [198] – Fundamental Research in Tra...

Claudio Carere1,2), Piet J. Drent3), Jaap M. Koolhaas4) & Ton G.G. Groothuis1,5) (1 Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2 Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Behavioural Neuroendocrinology Research Group, University of Liege, Belgium; 3 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands; 4 Department of An...

Daniël Boer,* Piet J. Mulders, and Cristian Pisano Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Theory Group, KVI, University of Groningen, Zernikelaan 25, NL-9747 AA Groningen, The Netherlands Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari, and INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, I-09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy (Received 25 September 2009; publ...

The standard distribution of LTEX contains a number of document styles that are meant to be used, but also serve as examples for other users to create their own document styles. These styles have become very popular among LTEX users. But it should be kept in mind that they were designed for American tastes and contain a number of hard-wired texts. This article describes a set of document-style ...

This paper reports on the development of Nimbi, which is an early computer game implemented at the Danish Computer Company Regnecentralen in 1962-63. Nimbi is a variant of the ancient game Nim. The paper traces the primary origins of the development of Nimbi. These include a mathematical analysis from 1901 of Nim that “killed the game” as the outcome could be predicted quite easily; the desire ...

Paraconsistent logics are generally considered somewhat esoteric. Moreover, someone argued that they simply not exist, because paraconsistent negations are not negations. The aim of this work is to provide some valid reasons to reject both these assumptions. Negation as finite failure (NAF) is the standard way to compute negation, used, for instance, by all the known (to me) Prolog implementati...