Sites Related
to Laws of Form

www.laws-of-form.net
	Laws of Form web site by Thomas Wolf: ".. not chiefly to present (just another) platform for discussing Laws of Form but to give the author himself some place to become communicado again."

Laws of Form Notebook
	Francis Gastellu's pages including a downloadable simulator: "A tool to explore the world of George Spencer-Brown's paradoxical Forms."

Charles. S. Peirce
	A web site devoted to C. S. Peirce, creator of Existential Graphs, a precursor to boundary logic.

Pancake Math
	David Zethmayr's whimsical yet serious and very accessible "Pancake Calculus" based on Laws of Form.

Principia Cybernetica Web
	Autopoiesis and cybernetics. Authors: Heylighen and others

Representation and Change
	Heylighen's 1987 dissertation about how the world changes under our representations and what we do about it. See his other publications including Distinction Dynamics, which is closer to Laws of Form.

Niklas Luhmann
	A site in German devoted to the work of sociologist Luhmann. "Luhmann contributed a theory of society, that is, a universalistic theory of society that claims to embrace everything that can be called 'social'. It is a constructivist, cybernetic theory that stands in relation to works by Talcott Parsons, Humberto Maturana, Heinz von Förster and Varela, as well as Spencer-Brown." - Andreas Kungl

Glossary to Jokisch's Logic of Distinctions: A Protologic Towards a Theory of Society
	Also in German. Logik der Distinktionen. Zur Protologik einer Theorie der Gesellschaft. Among other things, the author argues for a symmetrical distinction without the perspective bias taken by Spencer-Brown.

Kontakt Forum München für Persönlichkeitsentwicklung

Mostly in German but LoF discussion in English. "Its main focus is on research and development in the area of human awareness, dealing with such aspects as the history and definition of science, the role of emotions, mind-body relationship, the creation of meaning and sense, the rediscovery of traditional knowledge (both Western and Eastern), and the mathematics of George Spencer-Brown: the Laws of Form."

Notation Engineering Lab [Obsolete link]
	Founded by Jeff Long, this laboratory is devoted to the study of representations as our means of perceiving complexity. Long himself is writing a lengthy and ambitious meta-study of notation, called A Study of Notation: The Structure of Perceptual Revolutions.

The History of Mathematics
	These pages from the Trinity College, Dublin, cover the work of Ball, Berkeley, Hamilton, Boole, and Newton. It includes soft copies of Boole's original logic paper, `The Calculus of Logic'. (Do you suppose he ever imagined this sort of publication?)

Science & Non-duality
	A philosophical essay on distinctions, Constructivism, etc., by Ton Haarmans.

Sophia Institute [Obsolete link, see www.integralscience.org]
	The Sophia Institute is the home of the Sacred Science Society, devoted to mixing spiritual and scientific approaches to the study of reality. See Tom McFarlane's Essays on Mathematics, Physics and Spiritual Philosophy.

ANPA West
	Philosophy and quantum physics. Abstracts from the back issues, including several works by Kauffman, Etter. [Note: ANPA West is defunct, but the parent Alternative Natural Philosophy Association still meets annually in Cambridge England, but has no web site. Contact Dr. Keith G. Bowden for more information.]

Other GSB resources
	- Extensive Spencer-Brown "fan page" of Jorn Barger. - "Observer Web" page on GSB and LoF by Dr. Randall Whitaker. - Handwritten lecture notes by Richard H. Pickard from a lecture series given by George Spencer Brown in 1963 at University College London.