Saturday, February 12, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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Ben Goertzel said
Hi Paul,
I'm living in Rockville
still...
I'll give you a call over the weekend or on Monday
Ben
Reply: Ben
As a review, here is how we are thinking about the planning process.
We are a small group of individuals working on ignition of a Semantic Web, and associated anticipatory mechanisms.
Since there is a principled criticism of current business practices (e.g., those in the IT sector), we need to say something about capitalism as an economic theory. Having an economic system is important, since without an economic system supply chains and incomes do not exist very well. But the situation with IT and IT consulting is founded on two sets of problems:
1) The AI polemic and related mythology
2) The control of funding activities (government, and venture capital) by self centered business processes.
as expressed at
and elsewhere in the BCNGroup digital - Glass Bead Game (d-GBG).
(The founding committee says a little about the "related mythology" in an introduction to HIP philosophy
You and a few others have an advanced notion about a time, in the future, when manufactured "computers" engage in the real time pragmatic axis and entangle with the nature of complexity (in real time).
But in most cases, government funding of AI has become a business process used by folks without a comprehension of what natural intelligence is (or even an intellectual interest in this question). Government funding of IT in the name of this AI mythology is little more than a specific example of corporate welfare. This welfare is only possible because of the confusion that lies at the foundation of formal systems, as discussed by A. N. Whitehead and others.
“What we leave out during the abstraction process must be addressed
later on.” (Paraphrase).
We are not sure about Richard Ballard's work with n-aries (graph theory) and minimal encodable data structures for expressing “precisely” data regularity in context. Sandy Klausner's work is fuller, more pragmatic and more ready to support a new infrastructure for public, private and government Semantic Web with Anticipatory Mechanisms.
We are comfortable that computing with graph similarity (as discussed by John Sowa) leads to metaphoric analogy (see also Hoffstater’s work on similarity). We see schema logic, poly logics, Soviet era Qualitative Structure Activity Analysis (Q-SAR) and Quasi-Axiomatic Theory, NdCore (from Applied Technical Systems), rule engines from a number of sources, Topic Maps over RDF with constraint languages for computing, semantic extraction with embedded ontology (Adi structural ontology), Ontology referential bases (Orbs), Hilbert engines etc; as representative of what is correct.
These “correct things” are also what the business processes that support IT and IT consulting inhibit. (see AS-IS model for IT procurement by DoD)
The power of these new, but still inhibited, technologies and use philosophies is based on its simplification to something that "self-standardizes" in a way that Klausner and Ballard talks about. This self-standardization technically might be called "categoricalAbstraction" cA, and the use of these abstractions in Q-SAR analysis leads to science of event structures. This is what the BCNGroup has been working on with Dr Stephenson and his two centers for the study of terrorism and cyber event space.
The work by your group would feed into this work very well. But of course the problem is minimal funding.
So this is what the BCNGroup is offering to DHS, to Customs in particular if we can get the cards on the table.