Keynote: Explorations in Laws of Form — Louis H Kauffman

This talk will discuss a number of mathematical and philosophical excursions I have had in relation to Laws of Form. The remarks in the talk fall into the following categories. 0. The mark and the observer are, in the form, identical. 1. Mathematics is about what a distinction would be if there could be a distinction. 2. Arithmetic in the form. 3. Transfinite arithmetic in the form. 4. Idemposition, contiguity and the Four Color Theorem. 5. Imaginary Values, Iterants, Eigenforms, Complex Numbers and Clifford Algebras. 6. Modulators, stable states and transitions. Imaginary values in the transition of form. 7. Re-entry forms and Lambda Calculus.