On Saturday, I delivered a talk called "The Highest Relinquishment: Buddhist Anatta, and the Cradle of Things" at a great conference at the University of Vienna on "self-annihilation" in different religious traditions. Some photo-fragments + the flyer below.
Our latest post introduces to the visionary work of Gotthard Günther, who sought to operationalize Hegel's dialectics via second-order cybernetics, prompting an exploration of the challenges of addressing complexity within computational systems www.dialecticalsystems.eu
Steps towards a Ouroboric math? "One of the most important characteristics observed in metabolic networks is that they produce themselves. This intuition /../ can be mathematically framed in a weird looking equation, full of implications and potentialities: f(f) = f."
Ezequiel Di Paolo and I just finished a new annotated edition of Francisco Varela's 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy for MIT Press. We've added new introductory material to all the sections & new editors' notes commenting on the text. Stay tuned for publication details!
