Symbolic Systems
St. Pavel Florensky School of Symbolic Systems
St. Pavel Florensky was an Orthodox priest and a Renaissance man. He anticipated cybernetics, made many original scientific contributions, delved into logical and mathematical puzzles, and spearheaded the Moscow School of Mathematics. He was a master of his time of what we now call Symbolic Systems, as well as what I am calling Symbolic Systems of the Noetic Sphere.
” And, then, in a state of spiritual illumination, there are no contradictions. Therefore, there is no need to try to convince a rationalist that there are no contradictions: they exist, they are unquestionable. But a rationalist must believe a mystic when the latter states that these contradictions turn out to be a higher unity in the light of the Sun that does not set, and then they precisely show that the Holy Scripture and the dogmas are higher than fleshly rationality and, thus, could not be thought up by man, i.e., are Divine. This is the same conclusion at which we have arrived in the present work."
--Pavel Florensky
Symbolic Systems is an integral set of studies, but begins as separate departments and subjects. Symbolic Systems as a field of study originated at, and is provided by Standford University’s Symbolic Systems Program. Here, some integral topics are added.
Philosophy
- Philosophical Foundations
- Logic
- Decision Making & Rationality
- Phenomenology & Post-Phenomenology
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Foundations of Psychology
- Cognitive Science
- Neurosciences
- Neuroendocrinology
- Biomedical Applications
- Learning
- Computational Social Science
- Neptic Psychology
Computer Science & Computation
- Computational Foundations
- Mathematical Foundations
- Concrete Mathematics
- Applied Logic & Computation
- Computer Programming
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Music
Linguistics & Langage
- Natural Language
- Linguistics