Unmarked state
In George Spencer-Brown's calculus of indications, call the Laws of Form, the key operation is distinction. To sever a space, a distinction must be drawn. This is the elementary principle of distinction. All constructs (see cognitive constructivism) are operations of distinction. A distinction in consciousness (from normative experience to asamprajnata samadhi) is concerted by a triplistic consensus, called by Spencer-Brown, "Triplicity." The three are the 'marked state' or content, the unmarked state of Unknowable, and the mark of distinction itself, which separates the content from context. Triplicity is thus equivalent to the familiar Trinity of God, the Spirit and Man. In accord with this spiritual revelation, Charles Sanders Pierce, speaks of 'thirdness' (Piercian Thridness), and the primary two of these three are the objects, or uh, subjects, of cybernetic's 'proemial relation'. The unmarked state is forever outside the system. The Spirit of consciousness is Subjectivity, unity, identity, firstness of the actual. To contrast, the unmarked state is the God of consciousness, unknowable but known to be in the eternal region of Profundity.
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