Peirce and Spencer-Brown: history and synergies in cybersemiotics

Authors: Kauffman L.H.; Brier S.

Source: Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 8, Numbers 1-2, 2001 , pp. 3-5(3)

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Abstract:

In this issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing we have a collection of papers devoted to the cybernetics and mathematics of Charles Sanders Peirce with a special focus on its synergies with Spencer Brown's thinking. We hope that the theme in this issue reflects the extraordinary richness of C. S. Peirce's work and his relevance to our present concerns and creativity in cybernetics. The theme is part of the journal's development of the area of cybersemiotics where Peirce and Spencer-Brown each have delivered the logical foundations. The similarities in the focus on some of the deep foundational subjects are astonishing, amongst those especially the concept of the void or Firstness and the continuum plus the continuity of mind and matter!

Language: English

Document Type: Review article

Publication date: 2001-01-01