Imagination, the Self and Mathematical Reasoning, according to Peirce
§1. Ground, Object, and Interpretant†1 227. Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic ({sémeiötiké}), the quasi-necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs. By describing the doctrine as “quasi-necessary,” or formal, I…
Dynamics and technology
By the early 1990s, remarkable advancements in two commercial 3–D modeling software packages, Alias/Wavefront and Softimage, offered revolutionary possibilities for architectural design. Alias, the forerunner of todays Maya, was developed for the automobile industry to model complex car parts, and…
Mechanics of thought
When one considers the structure of the Difference and Analytical Engines, their resemblance to living “computers” becomes even more apparent. Babbage knew little or nothing about anatomy or physiology, and before the articulation of cell theory in the late 1830s,…
Brian Eno, complexity and universality
Of Eno’s technology projects that have fallen by the wayside, the one he would most like to revive is the idea of self-generating musical systems, which he began studying in the 1980s. The premise is to create a music-making machine,…
Mathematics as language
…little need to insist that mathematics is a language: who after all among those familiar with it would deny the proposition ^ Certainly not those users – accountants, engineers, economists, actuaries, statisticians, cliometricians, meteorologists, and the like – who have…