Summary: The Problem to be solved
A National Project empowered by the
President of the United States is required to “balance the equation”,
unbalanced by decades of government funding decisions.
Hard science is a paradigm that does not do well in answering fundamental questions about the nature of life, the origin of social conflict, or the degradation of environments by the use of blind hard power. There is, however, a deep and well principled literature on what can emerge as a unified “soft science” paradigm. Soft science does validate many aspects of the hard science paradigm. Soft science has objective truths that cannot be framed in the classical paradigm, now characterized by engineering and computer science.
Hard science is reinforced by the
formalism of mathematics, the illusions of computer science and the utility of
engineering. Adequate scholarship
exposes the limitations of Hilbert mathematics and the paradigms of computer
science and engineering. But this
exposure is marginalized by-reinforced intellectual and economic monopoly.
Background to the problem: Our
view of history is that an intellectual and economic monopoly is provided to
the hard science paradigm, while objective and vitally needed soft science is
inhibited. We claim that one can make
objective the observation that the “soft” science that is funded is forced into
an alignment with hard science. Control
over soft science comes through re-enforcement mechanisms that are tired to monopoly
power. We, respectfully, believe that unless
this monopoly is explicitly recognized, the imbalance between engineering disciplines
and natural science cannot be adjusted.
A new type of
anticipatory Human-centric Information Production (HIP) software is ready to be
deployed. The software provides a
distributed development environment for educators and scientists working on
issues related to human experience of knowledge and the sharing of knowledge
within communities. [*] The development environment itself is an
open source system and has no proprietary software. Applications developed in the environment can be equipped with
micro-transaction accounting software that meters the use of the application,
and provides a reasonable compensation model for primary innovators.
The concept is
that of a federally funded Knowledge Sharing Foundation. A National Project to establish the
knowledge sciences as an academic discipline will be supported using the
Knowledge Sharing Foundation.
Sustainability of the Foundation will develop based on market
forces. Consistent with positive
capitalism, revenues will be generated through services rendered to business,
government and individuals. A portion
of these revenues will be set aside to support the long-term viability of the
Foundation. The Foundation’s model is
a toll road that is designed and built using government resources and then
maintained using a non-encumbering usage toll.
This model should be compared with the commercial software model where
constant turmoil and confusion is required to sustain monopoly control over
information science.
As part of the
planning process we have prioritized two things:
1)
the
development of a K-12 curriculum and
2)
open access
to Human-centric Information Production (HIP) technology and methods
Both of these prioritized
items require outside economic support.
This support is needed to counteract an intellectual and economic
monopoly. We characterize this monopoly
in various ways as scientific reductionism, hard power, hard science or even a
type of philosophical fundamentalism.
Our new science is a soft science, and depends on a mature justification
that identifies a stratification of causation into (a) global or field dynamics
where cause and effects are not “Newtonian”, (b) Newtonian type conservation of
cause and effect equations, and (c) substructural kinematics that depends on
potentials established by localized history and ecological affordances.
In the medium
term, the prioritized items lead to economic and intellectual sustainability
for the Foundation. Our present work
includes a project to map memetic expression,
and to detect natural language usage that may be correlated with asymmetric threats. The same project is being applied in a
systemic process mapping the patent and patent
application environments.
Our planning
suggests that three stages are still in the future.
1)
Proof
in the Marketplace:
Obtaining venture capital for several corporations so that market success can
be measured by public acceptance of the stock of these corporations.
2)
Proof
in the deployment of government intelligence technology: We continue to seek contracts with US government agencies in
support of a new intelligence technology deployment.
3)
Establishment
of academic departments: Our effort to
establish academic department in all universities and college requires a re-programming of 1/6
of all federal support for academic computer science over a period of 5
years. This would amount to 1.5 billion
in federal investment.
Details
related to these three stages are still being developed. We ask that you support the
planning process.