When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
Differential Logic • The Logic of Change and Difference
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/03/14/differential-logic-the-logic-of-change-and-difference-a/
“Differential logic is the logic of variation — the logic of change and difference.”
Differential logic is the component of logic whose object is the description of variation — the aspects of change, difference, distribution, and diversity — in universes of discourse subject to logical description. A definition as broad as that naturally incorporates any study of variation by way of mathematical models, but differential logic is especially charged with the qualitative aspects of variation pervading or preceding quantitative models.
To the extent a logical inquiry makes use of a formal system, its differential component treats the use of a “differential logical calculus” — a formal system with the expressive capacity to describe change and diversity in logical universes of discourse.
A simple case of a differential logical calculus is furnished by a “differential propositional calculus”, a formalism which augments ordinary propositional calculus in the same way the differential calculus of Leibniz and Newton augments the analytic geometry of Descartes.
See —
Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/
Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/03/survey-of-differential-logic-8/
Differential Logic
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_%E2%80%A2_Overview
Differential Propositional Calculus
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Propositional_Calculus_%E2%80%A2_Overview
Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Overview
cc: https://www.academia.edu/community/VXoNQ9
cc: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Differential_Logic_The_Logic_of_Change_and_Difference2
#Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #LogicalGraphs #DifferentialLogic #DynamicSystems
#Inquiry #PropositionalCalculus #BooleanFunctions #BooleanDifferenceCalculus
#EquationalInference #MinimalNegationOperators #CalculusOfLogicalDifferences
When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
☸️ #Complexity – Where the #degrees of freedom are greatest 🔀
#WolfSinger talks to us about why #consciousness arises in high-dimensional, dynamic #state spaces.
A fascinating insight into the limits and possibilities of #neuroscience and #philosophy!
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/
#BrainResearch #NeuralNetworks #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Neurophilosophy #Self-Organization #DynamicSystems #DegreesOfFreedom #Zoomposium
Differential Logic • 2.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/02/06/differential-logic-2-b/
Cactus Language for Propositional Logic (cont.)
The second kind of connective is a concatenated sequence of propositional expressions, written e₁ e₂ … eₖ₋₁ eₖ to mean all the propositions e₁, e₂, …, eₖ₋₁, eₖ are true, in short, their “logical conjunction” is true. An expression of that form is associated with a cactus structure called a “node” and is “painted” with the colors e₁, e₂, …, eₖ₋₁, eₖ as shown below.
Node Connective
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/cactus-graph-ej-node-connective.jpg
All other propositional connectives can be obtained through combinations of the above two forms. As it happens, the parenthesized form is sufficient to define the concatenated form, making the latter formally dispensable, but it's convenient to maintain it as a concise way of expressing more complicated combinations of parenthesized forms. While working with expressions solely in propositional calculus, it's easiest to use plain parentheses for logical connectives. In contexts where ordinary parentheses are needed for other purposes an alternate typeface (…) may be used for the logical operators.
Resources —
Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/
Minimal Negation Operator
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Minimal_negation_operator
Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/03/survey-of-differential-logic-8/
Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/02/survey-of-animated-logical-graphs-8/
#Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #LogicalGraphs #DifferentialLogic #DynamicSystems
#Inquiry #PropositionalCalculus #BooleanFunctions #BooleanDifferenceCalculus
#EquationalInference #MinimalNegationOperators #CalculusOfLogicalDifferences
Differential Logic • 2.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/02/06/differential-logic-2-b/
Cactus Language for Propositional Logic —
The development of differential logic is facilitated by having a moderately efficient calculus in place at the level of boolean-valued functions and elementary logical propositions. One very efficient calculus on both conceptual and computational grounds is based on just two types of logical connectives, both of variable k-ary scope. The syntactic formulas of that calculus map into a family of graph-theoretic structures called “painted and rooted cacti” which lend visual representation to the functional structures of propositions and smooth the path to efficient computation.
The first kind of connective is a parenthesized sequence of propositional expressions, written (e₁, e₂, …, eₖ₋₁, eₖ) to mean exactly one of the propositions e₁, e₂, …, eₖ₋₁, eₖ is false, in short, their “minimal negation” is true. An expression of that form is associated with a cactus structure called a “lobe” and is “painted” with the colors e₁, e₂, …, eₖ₋₁, eₖ as shown below.
Lobe Connective
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/cactus-graph-ej-lobe-connective.jpg
Resources —
Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/
Minimal Negation Operator
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Minimal_negation_operator
Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/03/survey-of-differential-logic-8/
Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/02/survey-of-animated-logical-graphs-8/
#Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #LogicalGraphs #DifferentialLogic #DynamicSystems
#Inquiry #PropositionalCalculus #BooleanFunctions #BooleanDifferenceCalculus
#EquationalInference #MinimalNegationOperators #CalculusOfLogicalDifferences
Differential Logic • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/02/05/differential-logic-1-b/
Introduction —
Differential logic is the component of logic whose object is the description of variation — focusing on the aspects of change, difference, distribution, and diversity — in universes of discourse subject to logical description. A definition that broad naturally incorporates any study of variation by way of mathematical models, but differential logic is especially charged with the qualitative aspects of variation pervading or preceding quantitative models.
To the extent a logical inquiry makes use of a formal system, its differential component governs the use of a “differential logical calculus”, that is, a formal system with the expressive capacity to describe change and diversity in logical universes of discourse.
Simple examples of differential logical calculi are furnished by “differential propositional calculi”. A differential propositional calculus is a propositional calculus extended by a set of terms for describing aspects of change and difference, for example, processes taking place in a universe of discourse or transformations mapping a source universe to a target universe. Such a calculus augments ordinary propositional calculus in the same way the differential calculus of Leibniz and Newton augments the analytic geometry of Descartes.
Resources —
Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/
Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/03/survey-of-differential-logic-8/
#Peirce #Logic #Mathematics #LogicalGraphs #DifferentialLogic #DynamicSystems
#Inquiry #PropositionalCalculus #BooleanFunctions #BooleanDifferenceCalculus
#EquationalInference #MinimalNegationOperators #CalculusOfLogicalDifferences
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