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Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973

Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973

Kauffman, Louis H.

Paperback

Series: Cybernetics & Human Knowing

PhilosophyGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1788360281
ISBN13: 9781788360289
Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.41 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This Special Issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing contains rare material related to G. Spencer-Brown's book Laws of Form and its contents.

In 1973 there was a conference at Big Sur at which Spencer-Brown discussed his calculus with a group of scientists. This was the AUM Conference at Esalen, and the scientists consisted in an assortment of remarkable individuals exploring the cutting edge of human consciousness and culture, including Alan Watts, Ram Dass, John Lilly, Heinz von Foerster, Kurt von Meier, and others. One of the participants, Walter Barney, has written about this conference and has long been a keeper of the transcripts of Spencer-Brown's talks. In this issue we print Barney's transcripts of the conference and an article by Walter Barney and Kurt von Meier reflecting on the AUM conference. The transcripts are a remarkable amalgam of the thinking of Spencer-Brown and the questions and comments of the participants in AUM. The transcripts carry the same lucidity that infuses Laws of Form.

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