ORB Visualization
(soon)
National
Knowledge Project
We are looking at the
formation of an
anticipatory web of
information.
Previous comments by Howie
Firth -> .
4/14/2004 6:31 PM
Communication from Paul Prueitt to minciu_sodas_en yahoo e-forum
<Prueitt's on-line book - Foundations of Knowledge
Science>
We have been developing this notion of Herman Hesse, that
a representation of knowledge could be expressed within a complex game that involved
art, literature, music, history, natural science and mathematics.
The quality of discourse is excellent. Karl Pribram is one of my mentors and lives a few miles away from me in Northern Virginia, and 1/2 of my dissertation (1988) in mathematics was on modeling Karl's work on selective attention and the role of the frontal lobes in orienting behavior. But this work is only a starting point to a technology that is being called “The Anticipatory Web”.
A great deal of the initial work on the Anticipatory Web follows Karl’s two primary books
Pribram, K.H.
(1971). Languages of the Brain, experimental paradoxes and principles in
neuropsychology. New York: Wadsworth.
Pribram, K. H. (1991). Brain and Perception: Holonomy and Structure in Figural Processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Most important is the relationship between new work on what is being called mutual-induction, explained in a notational paper, and the standards related to Tim Berners Lee’s notion of Semantic Web. The notion is that artificial intelligence and mathematics based on Hilbert formalism has created something both far too complicated for most people to understand, and wrong is a specific way. By re-introducing the human back into the equation, one can make use of cognitive acuity that is natural and easy (for humans). The result is a concept and some of the first technology supporting and human/machine “knowledge operating system”.
This is easier that anyone has a right to expect.
Karl’s many conferences hold a great repository of almost
all of the great thinkers on mind and experience:
Pribram, K. (Ed). (1993).
Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data. Hillsdale, NJ,
ERA
Pribram, K. (Ed).
(1994). Origins: Brain & Self Organization . Hillsdale, NJ,
Pribram, K. &
King, J. (Eds) (1996). Learning as Self-Organization. Mahwah, NJ, ERA
Pribram, Karl (1993)
(Ed) Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data, Hillsdale,
NJ, LEA
Pribram, Karl (1994)
(Ed). Origins: Brain & Self Organization. Hillsdale, NJ, LEA
Howie, your notes are very close to things I have written over and over again and have suffered from due to the massive financial reinforcement that supports the "old science". This is a far greater problem than almost anyone recognizes.
Many individuals have suffered but do not understand the global problem since very little is developed in a media or within a professional organization. This need for bringing together a community was why a small group of scientists talked about the BCNGroup starting in 1992. In 1997 the Charter for the BCNGroup was published and a not for profit Corporation was founded. Our focus has become the National Educational Project to Establish the Knowledge Sciences as an Academic Discipline.
Of course, as you suggest and clearly know, the problem is described within the history of science and mathematics. I have trying to lay out the issues in a slightly different way in a short note that starts with a quote from John Dewey’s writing.
The only way to move forward is via education. And thus is what we are calling for. Only in this way can we shine light on those progresses that very few would feel comfortable with and change the way in which new capabilities related to mapping social discourse will be discovered.