Actors and Matters: Contents

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Key Concepts

Introduction

• How To Read This Book
• Ingress
• Prologue: The Arrow of Prehistory

Dyads

• Enactments / Kernels
• Trajectory / State
• Affordances / Co-Evolution
• Hysteresis / Commutativity
• Prototypes / Syntax
• Narrative / Data
• Kairos / Chronos
• Hermeneutics / Feedback
• Metabolism / Assembly
• Catalysts / Barriers
• Contingency / Entailment
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Triads

• Actor - Text - Umwelt
• Memory - Story - Text
• Habits - Maps - Skills
• Causality - Entailment - Gestalt

Recitals

• terraforming the a-priori

Appendix

• Convergence
• Repetition vs. Generality (Deleuze)
• Ergodicity (Probability)
• Isomorphism (and Homomorphism)
• Composition
• Computation
• Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety
• The Three Body Problem
• Entropy
• Law of Large Numbers / Central Limit Theorem
• Jensen's Inequality
• Zeno's Paradox
• Aristotle's Four Causes
• Spinoza's Adequate Ideas
• The Psychoanalytic Subconscious
• Scientific Paradigms
• Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
• Adjunctions
• The Yoneda Lemma
• Images (Bergson)