Communications on a National Project
On the nature of the
inhibition we face
3/7/2004 7:52 AM
<comment from Prueitt> This note
is the capture without attribution a theme that arose while the discussion [*] developed. Our interest is in developing a
thematic analysis of social discussion around the issues that clearly are and
have been blocking the development of the knowledge sciences. As we do this, we experience a
personalized fear that the field of inhibition experienced by all those who
would attempt to move the discipline forward.
This note is directed to an
individual who has asked that his participation have a low, zero level,
profile. </comment>
It is possible that you make substantive intellectual
contributions on the themes of the bead game, such as those being expressed by
John Sowa and Dick Ballard:
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/taxonomyDiscussion/thirteen.htm
In the development of the games we understood that many
individuals might wish to participate who did not feel comfortable with the
exposure that the conversation might make on careers.
The notions of meme and memetics are both deeply affected by
this field of inhibition, for example.
Michael Lissack developed a paper on catalytic indexicals
At
http://www.readware.com/ken/beadgames/knini.htm
use “catalytic indexicals” in the “ask about” box.
But the development of memetic science and a technology based
on this science is greatly needed due to the nature of asymmetric threats
Knowledge Technologies and the
Asymmetric Threat