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Embracing self-reference enables algebraic completeness without sacrificing system consistency. By adopting Varela's approach, self-referential systems produce formally defined indeterminate states rather than chaotic, unresolvable paradoxes. Read the latest #complexitycat essay!

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Someone must have already thought & wrote about the differences between Varela's work here and that of Spencer-Brown. (the former being an extension of the latter, as I understand them) h/t @[email protected] - yes, finished Forms now :)
Show threadmjMar 27
This fits the bill, and you don't even need to 'wait for the movie'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmHJ... Varela's 2 texts “Calculus of #Self-Reference” and “The Arithmetic of #Closure” Next up: James Flagg & his resolution of the #paradox still lingering there. #philsci metanoia.si/2021/03/28/o...

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Life and Work of Francisco Varela: Louis Kauffman | Ouroboros Seminars 2021 | Varela 20/30

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