Wednesday,
April 13, 2005
Global
Information Framework
On the
political process leading to the founding of
The Second School of Semantic Science
Link to the generative methodology
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The events of the past four weeks remind me that the goal is not a contract for OntologyStream, or to provide income. The goal is to establish the science of knowledge systems as an academic discipline. The problems are many-fold.
First there is the conflict between fundamentalism and those of us that believe in a type of scientific realism. In scientific realism things like the human soul and human intentionality are acceptable “objects of scientific investigation”. One only needs to create an objective basis for knowledge about such things.
A recent PBS special on television delineated the new culturally based challenges of scientific Darwinism by individuals who include religious fundamentalist as well as groups who believe in an intelligent pull to the evolutionary process. The tri-level architecture is developed for “machine intelligence” is based on the notion that the acceptance of order imposed by an intelligent design leads to “anticipatory technology”, of a type that is not now expected by mainstream artificial intelligence and the mainstream of reductionist science.
Not all leading scientists agree that Darwin was the final word to the question of how living system change over time.
Second, there is the end of the mythology that computer science has helped to create. Not for the first time in history, a technology has largely been responsible for a backward evolution in the average individual’s ability to understand the world one lives in. But computer science has not yet been exposed as having supported paradigms for which there is little objective truth, such as the strong AI position that silicon and computing languages can produce a sentient intelligence. Many have tried to expose this AI polemic, but so far there has been a failure. Why?
The answer lies in the third problem. This problem is the adoption of a set of extra-Constitutional rights and privileges based on inappropriate government classification, when only company competitive positions are involved, and those mandatory NDA agreements signed in the IT industry.
The problem of the adoption of a set of extra-Constitutional rights and privileges is reflected in the previous beads. However, the deeper analysis of this problem revels the solution to IT proprietary behaviors.
It has been suggested in the digital Glass Bead Games that all computer patents are reducible to a small set of optimal concepts.
The foundations of computer science is mathematics
So, eventually there is no ownership over the best methods in computer science. All of these methods have been patented and the patent right expired. Of course this “end of computer science” can be delayed if the owners of everything are able to get the Congress to continue this ownership game on forever.
We do not know the future, but one has to guard against such eventuality. Meanwhile we have a different path that has been suggested in the concept of the