Jon Awbrey<p>Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/</span></a></p><p>Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity<br>• <a href="https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-</span><span class="invisible">complexity/</span></a></p><p>❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;<br> the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;<br> I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by<br> the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.<br> And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞ </p><p>🙞 Theodore Parker<br>• <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2020030204</span><span class="invisible">5624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false</span></a></p><p>The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.<br>For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.</p><p>Resources —</p><p>Survey of Cybernetics<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/</span></a></p><p>Survey of Differential Logic<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/</span></a></p><p>Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxWeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxWeber</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expectation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intention</span></a></p>
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Jon Awbrey<p>Theory and Therapy of Representations • 4<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/24/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-4-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/24/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-4-b/</span></a></p><p>Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio<br>• <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/ontolog-forum/c/Ek_7cCCyFkQ/m/qI0kQv4UAgAJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">groups.google.com/g/ontolog-fo</span><span class="invisible">rum/c/Ek_7cCCyFkQ/m/qI0kQv4UAgAJ</span></a></p><p>JA: What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?</p><p>PDM: The short answer is — the force behind all distortions is our own unenlightened mind, and all the shortfalls this comes with. </p><p>I think that's true, we have to keep reflecting on the state of our personal enlightenments. If we can do that without losing our heads and our systems thinking caps, there will be much we can do to promote the general Enlightenment of the State.</p><p>On both personal and general grounds we have a stake in the projects of self‑governing systems — whether it is possible for them to exist and what it takes for them to thrive in given environments. Systems on that order have of course been studied from many points of view and at many levels of organization. Whether we address them under the names of adaptive, cybernetic, error-correcting, intelligent, or optimal control systems they all must be capable to some degree of learning, reasoning, and self‑guidance.</p><p>Resources —</p><p>Survey of Cybernetics<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/</span></a></p><p>Survey of Differential Logic<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/</span></a></p><p>Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxWeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxWeber</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expectation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intention</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.2<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/</span></a></p><p>Scene 2. Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/</span></a></p><p>Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error-controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.</p><p>That brings us to Question 2 —</p><p>• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?</p><p>Resources ─</p><p>Survey of Cybernetics<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/</span></a></p><p>Pragmatic Theory Of Truth<br>• <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory</span><span class="invisible">_Of_Truth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxWeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxWeber</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expectation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intention</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.1<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/</span></a></p><p>Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology. In my studies it led me from math to psych and back again, with sidelong glances at the history of democratic governance. Its time come round again, I find myself returning to the scenes of two recurring questions.</p><p>Scene 1. Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/14/pragmatic-truth-discussion-18/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11</span><span class="invisible">/14/pragmatic-truth-discussion-18/</span></a></p><p>We do not live in axiom systems. We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural. There is no reason to think we will ever have exact and exhaustive theories of what's out there, and the truth, as we know, is “out there”. Peirce understood there are more truths in mathematics than are dreamt of in logic — and Gödel’s realism should have put the last nail in the coffin of logicism — but some ways of thinking just never get a clue.</p><p>That brings us to Question 1 —</p><p>• What are formalisms and all their embodiments in brains and computers good for?</p><p>Resources ─</p><p>Survey of Cybernetics<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/</span></a></p><p>Pragmatic Theory Of Truth<br>• <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory</span><span class="invisible">_Of_Truth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxWeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxWeber</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expectation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intention</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-2-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/22/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-2-b/</span></a></p><p>In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways. Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what spheres of influence they inhabit, private or public. The only way you get a choice in that governance is if there are paths of feedback permitting you to affect the life of those decision makers and action takers in significant ways. That is what accountability, response-ability, and representative government are all about.</p><p>Naturally, some people are against that.</p><p>In the United States there has been a concerted campaign for as long as I can remember — but even more concerted since the Reagan Regime — to get the People to abdicate their hold on The Powers That Be and just let some anonymous corporate entity send us the bill after the fact. They keep trying to con the People into thinking they can starve the beast, to limit government, when what they are really doing is feeding the beast of corporate control, weakening their own power over the forces that govern their lives.</p><p>That is the road to perdition as far as responsible government goes. There is not much of anything one leader or one administration can do unsupported if the People do not constantly demand a government of, by, and for the People.</p><p>Resource ─</p><p>Survey of Cybernetics<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxWeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxWeber</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expectation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intention</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/</span></a></p><p>❝Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors?❞</p><p>─ Plato • Alcibiades 135 A</p><p>Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error‑controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.</p><p>The question for our time is —</p><p>• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?</p><p>Repercussions ─ </p><p>The Place Where Three Wars Meet<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06</span><span class="invisible">/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/</span></a></p><p>Resource ─</p><p>Survey of Cybernetics<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MaxWeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxWeber</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expectation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intention</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/</span></a></p><p>❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞</p><p>❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:</p><p>❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞</p><p>Reference —</p><p>Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LearningOrganizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningOrganizations</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reciprocity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Rousseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rousseau</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SocialCompact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCompact</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/</span></a></p><p>I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.</p><p>• <a href="https://www.academia.edu/community/54MZbO" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">academia.edu/community/54MZbO</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>• <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoin</span><span class="invisible">quiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224</span></a><br>• <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basal_Ingredients_Of_Society" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/post/Basal_In</span><span class="invisible">gredients_Of_Society</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdaptiveSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaptiveSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Governance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LearningOrganizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningOrganizations</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reciprocity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Rousseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rousseau</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SocialCompact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCompact</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a></p>
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