Monday, February 20, 2006
Generative Methodology Glass Bead Games
On the limits of the OWL standard à [184]
Reading material [1]
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Summary of the discussion up to this point à [186]
John (K) communicated to the Rosen eforum,
Paul,
I'll
search for Edelman, not familiar with that literature.
This
is exactly my idea as well and I have a presentation showing it. so
it
would be a good reference. thanks.
minor
point, "aggregation" seems opposite Rosen terms which would be
"abstraction"
- the opposite of aggregation almost. The reason it
under
constrains is that each "model", of either structure or function, is
less than
the
source and taken from it, but it is still a whole natural system
when
reconstructed with new entailments. So, you get creative change,
much
like a genetic recombination. At least that's how I have to
visualize
it happening. "Aggregation" might work too, but I have to
think about it. What's being aggregated?
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http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/98/24/13763
my use of aggregation comes from the Soviet applied semiotics (Pospelov)... and my understanding of Peirce.
I do not know what "abstraction" means. However, there are some technical IT definitions that I am trying to get straight.
I use "induction" also, as in signal induction in gene and cell expression (communication). But almost no one really understands how Whitehead thought about induction (for example). Some even think that induction is merely a form of deduction, or closely related.
I agree with your visualization... I think you will find Edelman's short paper perfect as a reference. But Edelman's notion of degeneracy is not well received even though his Nobel prize is based on degeneracy in selectionism in immune system mechanisms
His major book is "Neural Darwinism"
The elements that just happen to be in the environment (as raw materials) are "aggregated up" into a whole greater than the sum of parts... through a process of selection. Like physical atomic atoms are locallized in the formation of a compound. So interplay between endophysical and exophysical (environmental) entailments collectively constrain the "aggregation". I am just hoping that these words make sense.
The substrate is at a different level of organization in the sense that the whole interacts not with the substrate but with the next level of organization up from that substrate.
Of course the problem is that this is not "hierarchical", but nested.