Friday, December 09, 2005
(new thread on Emergency Medical Ontology Project planning à [home] )
Dear Adam:
In response to your note [278].
I regard myself as part of a knowledge
science community. My work is exposed
fairly completely in the in-line book Foundations for Knowledge Science
The fundamental assumption that my community
makes is that computer science mainstream has HELPED lead us down a path where
the responsibility of the human to work effort is reduced or is focused on
specific role playing within well structured lines of business.
The underlying assumptions made as part of building
this road are merely assumptions about the inability of society to evolve
towards something that has an intelligent design.
Computer science could not have done this
without a memetic alignment with Human-centric Information Production (HIP)
is the new paradigm, and it is being supported more and more by a new
generation of computer scientists who saw personally that part of strong AI
paradigm that we judge to be incorrect.
[196]
The theory behind the General Information
Framework is one that becomes based in natural science, over time.
The National Project we have proposed would
create a K-12 school curriculum that would prepare students, here in the US and
around the world, to understand the types of technologies that are in the
Framework. The theory is a gift. The beginning curriculum is here.
The “GIFT” acronym does fit precisely the
branding that we are attempting to make.
The theory is something to be given to
computer science from the natural science community.
John Sowa and many others are making a
argument in regards to the limitations of the RDF based representation of human
knowledge. This is a judgment based on
objective science.
The principle of “eventChemistry” (eC) are
laid out quite clearly in many places including as indexed from the URL ,
But more importantly eC is based on the work
done in the Former Soviet Union on the function/structure phenomenon involved
in chemistry and in event analysis.
At various placing in huge research
literatures, in the natural sciences, the relationship between the processes
that occur in the electromagnetic spectrum supporting human thought process,
and the possible computing paradigm is discussed. Specifically look at the third section in :
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/kmbook/Chapter1.htm
<quote>
During a course taught by Pribram at Georgetown
University (Spring, 1999), he described a series of three sets of Fourier -
Inverse Fourier transforms of the optic flow.
The process starts with an inverse Fourier at the
retina lens. Here the scattered light of the environment is focused into a
retinal process that builds an energy manifold through the action of what is
modeled with a forward Fourier transform. The physical processes in the brain
are not as simple as the Fourier transform that is involved in the development
of a hologram with glass lens. The
retinal process is a metabolic process that has complex protein conformational
reaction circuits. Note that quantum mechanical processes are involved in the
absorption of protons by redopsin molecules, in the retina, and that this
single class of events must be the gateway events in the metabolic circuits
that produce a single distributed manifold and coherent awareness. The redopsin molecules have two metastable
states, a high-energy and low-energy state.
The high-energy state contributes to a field potential and when
sufficient molecules have been pushed into this field potential then the field
itself can be taken up by innervating dendrites projecting from the Lateral
Geniculate Nucleus.
The resulting energy manifold is sampled by the
axonal dendrites of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN). The LGN is half way between the eyes and the
visual cortex. The neurons of the LGN
provide a sequence of non-linear processing in rout to a re-spreading of
energy/information into the layers of the cortex. This spread is the second
Fourier transform and becomes linear as the information, including timing
information, is encoded in the frequency spectrum. The reason why it is a
Fourier is due to the underlying physics of lens and the species (Darwinian)
need for effortless data fusion. In the
linear spectral domain data fusion is merely concurrence of energy fields. The
process control mechanisms merely need to push the two energy fields together.
Nature finds an exceedingly simply solution to the difficult problem of data
fusion.
The third linear transform produces object
consistencies that we perceive as objects in the world. This third transform
occurs over a period of time and involves movement in space-time. The author
interprets the neuropsychology to mean that the third transform acquires code
from metabolic processes occurring in the limbic system and in the association
cortex and spreads this code across many brain regions.
Paul Prueitt
Taos Institute