Self=organizing maps (SOM in my previous email to Synthesis research) may be as appealing as picking up shells at the beach,
but how about diving into the ocean and making deeper work?
At the SOM event sponsored by Ludgar Hovestadt and Vera Buhlmann in ETH Zurich,
Elias Zafiris and Mike Epperson presented a far richer body of ideas
based on a sheaf theoretic approach to quantum field theory (greatly extending Whitehead) :
Mike Epperson has a way of combining causal and logical ontologies that may work,
and is in any case worth serious post-Deluzian and post-Whiteheadean attention:
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For some elementary mathematical background to Mike and Elias' work: