[Fis] Karl Javorsky resources

[Malcolm Dean]

I see a collection of Karl's papers at
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Javorszky__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!UbKGD8XEyM9zI8aWu3wSh_euFlQRmfb2yHeSiaIUtFKBYQo6kZa3EhSb2F9c8IfNmA0B_VZEP9vIaT0zIQU-7ZE$ 

Is this list reasonably complete? Or are there important topics which
ResearchGate does not have?

What other sources exist, such as conference abstracts, photographs,
biographies?

Malcolm Dean
Los Angeles

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> Dear FIS,
> It is sad that Karl has left. My experience has been that I understood a
> bit more each time I heard him.
> The basic themes he was working with were number in relation to order
> (Sumerian) and pattern or grouping (Arkadian).
> For seeing how number is fundamental in our descriptions of the world
> these two ways of holding number are very important.
> We can explore Karl?s themes by starting with and illustrating for
> ourselves how these themes work. For example, consider a drawing of 5 dots
> by 5 dots,
> A 5 x 5 square. So I have illustrated the number 25 as a special grouping
> of 25 dots in the form of a square.
> And in examining this grouping you see that it, in an ordered way, divides
> into 25 = 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9, a sum of consecutive odd numbers.
> (The actual drawing is deleted from this email because FIS is very
> Sumerian and cannot accept pictorial information.)
> In this way the square grouping is related to an ordered sequence and we
> see from this that ANY square number is a sum of consecutive odd numbers.
> We see this because the grouping shows us how this order occurs for any
> grouping of this form. This is just one small example of the intimate
> relationship of the Arkadian and the Sumerian points of view.
>
> We can work with these themes by starting with the ideas and making our
> own illustrations. Then, if we wish, we can look at Karl?s more technical
> writing. His particular examples are, in fact, examples not so far from
> these, but constructed in his own viewpoint, which is quite original. He is
> concerned particularly with a kind of crossover in the handling of number
> between grouping and order, and with a finite range that, for him, appears
> significant in that it allows for fluidity in this translation. We handle
> numbers of sizes above and below his optimal range. But I think that in
> order to do that we are in fact ?forced? to use signs and symbols. Our need
> to be able have this fluidity pushes us into language as reference to
> pushes us into the situation where language operates on and we think
> through and about language itself. There is much more to say here.
>
> The matter of the NAND gate or the NOR gate (as suggested by Kate
> Kauffman) seems to me to be closer to considerations with Spencer-Brown,
> where the ?mark? is a generalization of a NOR gate (for Spencer-Brown) and
> equivalently a NAND gate (for Charles Sanders Peirce). We have <ABC> =
> Not(A or B or C) for example.
> And indeed the theme of order and grouping comes in here in a very
> fundamental way because it is only the group of values A,B,C and not their
> order that is important to the mark as operator. The mark as operator acts
> on groups without order. And order arises from the acts of operation. When
> we identify with the mark ("the mark and the observer are identical in the
> form?) we are identifying with our Arkadian/Sumerian role as intermediators
> of Order and Pattern.
> There is more to say here and we can return to it.
> Very best,
> Lou
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