Wednesday,
August 25, 2004
National Science Foundation Cutbacks
Next element of the discussion
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Thank you for the note. As I have discussed in a paper read by Admiral Poindexture on Total Information Awareness technology use-practices,
Knowledge Technologies and the
Asymmetric Threat
one can render the conceptual structure of text posted in Internet discussions thematically without revealing the identity of the individual. Many conversations are occurring with scholars and consultants whose personal identity in the discussion cannot be disclosed because they are not comfortable with the situation that this would create for them personally. This phenomenon has been going on, in the context of the planning for the National Project, since 1992.
A great deal is understood because of these private conversations. Now we need to bring the topics but not the personalities to the public attention.
The bead games have three circles, to account for this.
The representation of social discussion about topics like this one is an essential part of how democracy may be practiced in the near future.
So the founding committee is creating a mirror of the topics that is then separated from the person of you or I. Hopefully many will see how these “bead games” are supposed to work when the knowledge representational substructure is put into place.
The automation of the construction of beads is via Anticipatory Web of information techniques and NOT artificial intelligence techniques.
I only partially agree that the plight of most innovators in the knowledge science is self-imposed. Some of the scholars have talked about this in the language of Maturana and Velara’s book “The Tree of Knowledge, the biological origins of intelligence” (1989). We use the term “autopoiesis”, or image of self.
There is a separate issue, one hidden by the plight that our society as a whole is in.
I have reedited
http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/eightynine.htm
this morning to draw out the social arguments more clearly.
I work with my virtual students, there are four of them now, in coding the Knowledge Sharing Foundation and integrating some of the first technologies into this system.
We need a revenue stream that is minimal and for which I am offering stock in the corporation I have founded.