December 6, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
à
[bead thread on curriculum
reform]
The Taos Institute
(on the possibilities)
It is important to see the nature of the tasks that Knowledge Foundations Inc has taken on.
I have, as always, the question of "is there anything left undone" to do in regards to the foundations of knowledge science?
You mentioned (copied below):
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Let me reassert that my focus is on how knowledge works in any science
or
application and for any host platform -- mechanical, biological, etc.
It is
not in pursuit of the Turing test of simulating human neurophysiology
and to
discover their special species dependent entailments.
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My writing on human neurophysiology is collected together in an online book, in which I do.... as a matter of fact, address the human neuropsychological sciences.
On the other side of my work is a huge (un-discovered) literature... which I partially make scholarly reference to. The work of making this literature mainstream cannot be done as long as the computer scientists occupy positions of false intellectual power in our society.
The present scientific publishing houses, due to the peer review that occurs by individuals who have specific bias, cannot publish my book. The same peer review community has repeatedly blocked funding of BCNGroup work .
My life's work is on demonstrating capability from underlying computational processes, BASED ON the neuropsychological sciences. Our work is now focused in created a unique e-commerce system called Virtual Taos.
It is important to note that the ONTAC working group discussion I posted starting with
does NOT focus on the #1 threat to the Nation's health and well being, and this is the threat of the flu pandemic .....
In order that ontology mediation of scientific/medical community discussion to occur, the issue of response degeneracy HAS to be addressed.... I repeatedly attempted to get the discussion at ONTAC to recognize this issue. Gary was close to recognizing the issue and responding to it, as were several of the women in the group. But John Sowa never has, and some of the others actively campaigned to ask me to leave the working group. I left.
When the pandemic hits us, we need to have, in place, a real time human communication infrastructure that can talk about things that did not exist 4 hours ago. 9-11-2001 was a similar event. The hurricanes this summer were also of this nature.
These events create facts that never existed before, and because of this creation of new facts, the knowledge encoding mechanisms in Mark 3 must be human-centric and real time.
The way, according to Edelman and others, that biological intelligence deals with novelty is via and bottom up degeneracy (as discussed by Edelman) and a top down templating related to selectionism. Perhaps intelligent design is involved as well. This is a true open question, for natural science.
Dr Paul Prueitt
www.virtualTaos.net