4/24/2004
8:15 AM
The path
forward
On the design
of micro-farm ecosystem
County
Knowledge Library
Bill,
Please review
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/microFarm/ten.htm
and the side note at
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/microFarm/ten-one.htm
A process is developing where the goal is to create a Rural County Knowledge Base Library.
The Rural County Knowledge Base Library is not yet exactly the right set of terms, but we have the concepts captured in these terms, and will use the shortened phrase "County Knowledge Library" as we look for better branding language.
The county knowledge library is to be produced using the HIP (Human-centric Information Production) paradigm and technology. HIP is a term invented, in 2003, by Ontologystream and BCNGroup collaboration.
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/HIP.htm
HIP is a real and viable alternative to the socially scary science fictions developed around the concept of artificial intelligence. The concept of a semantic web of meaning, now popular in certain circles, is to be transformed to an Anticipatory Web (AW) of Library Resources. The AW is being developed as the means in which Business-to-Business and Peer-to-Peer knowledge technologies facilitate human communication and the transfer of human knowledge into machine based ontology.
Technical
note: An ontology in real physical systems is
something that does NOT exist as something directly observable. String theory and quantum theory is often
about “ontology”. In this sense,
natural ontology shares the non-observable properties of genes and memes. A gene expresses itself as a
property of a living system in an ecological environment. A meme, according to Blackmore
and Dawkins (The Selfish Gene”) and others, expresses
itself as a property of social discourse.
In all three cases, an evolutional process is involved in the
expression. This evolutionary
process involves emergence and thus is not reducible to
classical Newtonian physics. Emergence
is not expressible as a model using Hilbert mathematics (see I. Prigogine’s
“End of Certainty”, 1998). Thus the use
of the word “ontology” by most computer scientists is confused and
confusing. The proper use of
terminology is to say that some structure in the computer gives rise to
the presentation of specific data whose epistemology is
interpreted by humans. Only in this
case is there machine ontology.
Machine ontology is not a standard set of definitions such as expressed
as so called OWL (Ontology Web Language) ontology. Machine ontology does exist in the stratified
theory that instantiates as categoricalAbstraction and eventChemistries.
HIP brings the human into a process loop that must involve a direct perception of reality. The Knowledge Operating System (KOS) is realized in a distributed Safe Net, but the population of the internal Library resources of the Safe Net will be achieved only via the HIP paradigm and technology. The Virtual Museum System is one part of the Safe Net.
Questions about how this will work should be addressed to portal@ontologystream.com.
Natural science is used to demonstrate that this direct perception of reality is integral to living systems, at whatever level of organization - plant, animal or human. The key to the knowledge science curriculum is to re-introduce the import and concepts that Jefferson and others had about the agrarian society and the critical role of the informed individual human in a democratic society. Of many reasons, our society is very close to loosing the tentative grip on participatory democracy. The knowledge sciences and the K-12 curriculum development is consistent with the re-establishment of the strengths that come to democracy from the unique character of individual human beings.
Cultural Note: The separation of
property rights from individuals is thought of as free market economic theory,
benefiting society as a whole and thus indirectly benefiting each human
being. In reality the strengthening of
the property rights of non-human entities, currently recognized by statues as
Corporations, has lead to aggregation of intellectual property and land property
as a means to reduce the freedoms of the individuals human beings. The Microsoft case is the most publicly
recognizable case, but biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing are very
powerful sectors that depend on monopoly control of intellectual property. It is unclear that the Constitutional
provisions for intellectual property are applicable to monopoly control over
intellectual property. The issues
directly inhibit the development of micro-farming and peer-to-peer HIP
systems. Our arguments in regard to
software intellectual property are based on the foundational of
mathematics.
HIP is based on a common understanding about the nature of life. The resources of a Safe Net protected Rural Community Knowledge Base Library are to be used to provide a new manufacturing and distribution system for nutraceuticals and bio-production based on close ecosystem farming. The result will be sustainable economic health.
The National Educational Project to Establish the Knowledge Sciences is directed to acquire K-12 curriculum on living systems and project this curriculum through distance learning to those in the rural communities who wish to be part of an ecological-cultural-economic subsystem supporting a farming co-operative based on family owned micro-farming enterprises.
One of the key challenges for our planning process is to develop an appreciation of the nature and history of farm co-operatives. This is why I am looking for a small farm; in the upper Shenandoah Valley to live on and care take for the next year. I know how to get sufficient Internet connection to continue collaborative work using satellite down links.
The Rural Safe Net has to fit within a wireless Internet Virtual Private Network architecture.
Return to the founding agrarian spirit of America
New Agricultural Visions
Australia (NAVA)