January 2, 2006
Additional reading:
Cory Casanave's paper on Data
Access
work on ontology for biological signal pathways
EU’s program to model complexity using ontology
Communication from Azamat Abdoullaev
The aligning of our approaches
and models will come next, when we achieve the aim getting the funding, and
it is a not big deal since we have the similar views of things in the to
the world.
Robert Rosen’s approach to systems, complexity, order, circularity, organization, structure, control, and information, chiefly coincides with our ontological model of the world as the global networks of networks of causally interacted (interrelated) processes.
See my paper published
at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston: 20th WCP: The Ultimate of Reality: Reversible
Causality
A reversible
(absolute) causality is thought to be the ultimate of reality. But that causality
by its nature must be reversible, or mutually convertible ...
What J Rosen says below can't raise any principal objections, since all the significant statements of Second-Order Cybernetics can be derived from the UFO (Unified Framework Ontology).
J. Rosen wrote:
''In my father's view,
complexity has to do with relational interaction. In natural
systems, the interaction between two entities can have effects that could not
be predicted based on any amount of knowledge about those two entities, in an
of themselves. This is complexity. “
Some examples of contextual factors are proximity, temperature, volume, and multiple temporal aspects such as duration, rate, sequence, etc. Such contextual relations carry information, sometimes vitally important information, which becomes part of any effect, or "cause". In fact, my father's conclusion was that causality, itself, is relational. Nothing is "caused" until various entities interact, and the specific relations under whom any interaction takes place will determine the outcome/effects.''