Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 6
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10/05/forgetfulness-of-purpose-%e2%80%a2-6/

Peircers,

Just enough time for an incidental observation.

Consider the table Ashby uses to describe his first example of a regulation 
game.

Table 11/3/1
`````|```R```
`````|`α`β`γ`
=====|=======
```1`|`b`a`c`
D `2`|`a`c`b`
```3`|`c`b`a`

A table like that is a compact way of describing a triadic relation,
in this case a relation L ⊆ D × R × O whose triples are displayed
in the following relational data table.

D R O
=====
1 α b
1 β a
1 γ c
2 α a
2 β c
2 γ b
3 α c
3 β b
3 γ a

May you find food for thought, a late night snack on those tables.

Reference
=========

Ashby, W.R. (1956),
An Introduction to Cybernetics,
Chapman and Hall, London, UK.  Republished
by Methuen and Company, London, UK, 1964.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf

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