(soon)
4/16/2004 8:43 AM
Back to Peter Krieg’s bead on Complexity
Peter writes
Physical systems in general cannot
be completely isolated from their environment, however. As a result, many (n-)
logic domains interact with a given physical system as forces or logics. The
behaviour of a physical system therefore cannot be described as a pure
mechanism except in an idealized way. This still allows us to build EPS, but it
also means that all EPS eventually age, break down and deteriorate. They are
never fully analyzable, predictable or not even exactly reproducible. I suggest
to call systems where different logic domains intersect as “complex”.
This is an important communication because it allows me to get at something that is a point of mutual agreement between myself and Peter and myself and Ben Goertzel.
Polylogics begin to move away from the non-stratified computer science paradigm. Non-stratified computer science patents are what we discuss with Figure 1 on patent space and Hilbert mathematics. With stratified computer science and polylogic-based computer science the Figure 1 becomes non-relevant.
The polylogic work on patent expression is not subject to the arguments the Harold Szu made to me on the finite characterization of all computer science.
The new patents will depend on language that explicitly acknowledges the role of human (or living systems) control over the chain of action-perception cycles within the notion of a knowledge operating system.
It is interesting that the science fiction has almost seen this possible extension of current science where computer processing is coupled to a living intelligence, and the machine/living system becomes coupled. The series of mutual inductions between natural and machine processing produces an ability to act in the world as a means to express intentions. The Anticipatory Web has this richer science at its core, unlike the Semantic Web – which is still conceptually rooted in the mythology of artificial intelligence.
Human introspection may not need to be present in order to establish a mutual induction between Anticipatory Web technology and a living process. For example, an organic virus might find itself coupled to a reinforcement process that used machine aggregation of data invariance to control environmental conditions that optimized the primitive “intentional spectrum” that organic compounds have. The same concept can be applied to the development of pharmaceutical farming or manufacturing. Electromagnetic phase resonance could be used to provide a fine control over metabolic chains, so that inulin chains might develop that are specific carriers of pharmaceutical agents. Of course, this work will occupy the pharmaceutical industry for decades.
The InOrb technology (SLIP plus Orbs) and dataRenewal Inc software develops this control capability between a system of linked web sites, such as an index on weblogs (blogs) so that a dynamic conceptual index can be constructed and encoded as a Ontology Web Language consistent event map, showing the evolution of the thematic content of social discourse. This capability is awkwardly and poorly sought by intelligence agencies, as in the DARPA Total Information Technology funding and in parts of the In-Q-Tel funding.
Our concept, eg BCNGroup, is that this Anticipatory Web technology should be inexpensive, openly available to everyone, and revealed as fast, small and interoperable with Topic Maps and OWL ontology. The Weblog Index could be developed within 60 days if we had a small budget so that Nathan and I could work full time on this.
Peter also says
Since logic is the only computable approach available to us, this is
probably the closest we can come in mapping and abstracting complex systems.
Human thinking as a combination of intuition and logic seems to be using a
similar approach: Intuition allows us to see patterns as result of complex
interactions and to produce (usually by analogy) theories and axioms that
establish logic domains where logic deduction can then be applied.
And I will have more to say on this a bit later…..
And discuss the paper by Nils Thelin (Sweden) at
Biopragmatism, space/time cognition, and the sense of
language