So how does that relate to Story? [⇒Story and Life]
Well before the mark can expand or contract there was this state of Distinction where we made a distinction but we haven't pointed either to the inside or the outside.
So there's a state of uncertainty of oscillation and he (George Spencer Brown) uses this mark to indicate that it's like the beginning of a ...
The flipchart sketch above seems to resemble Chiara Marletto's definition of a physical system capable of carrying Information, with the Oscillations described by Leon Conrad corresponding to the flip operation.