Communications on a National Project
3/6/2004 9:48 PM
We have taken only a part of a recent note
and will make some comments on that part of the questions asked which goes to
the heart of using a stratified architecture to support the formation of a
situational grounded ontology (which we describe in various places.) The author asked that his name not be
used in any posting,
"Can you take my profile on your site and email down to near zero? I'm happy to listen and occasionally speak up, but too much visibility is not helpful at the present time."
In his case, and also in other case, we are happy to remove
names and focusing on content.
There is interplay between the natural sciences and the
computer science.
Whereas we agree with some that first-rate computer
scientists are not the same as programmers and business people, we do make the
argument that computer science is NOT a natural science except in a very narrow
sense of the term "natural".
We cannot easily bring into this Internet discussion those
scholars like Karl Pribram or Peter Kugler, both would deepen the discussion in
different ways. We have talked to
both of them recently in person.
Kugler would and can frame the problem of using the types of
formalism that the mainstream is stuck in, and build out the theory of
perceptual measurement consistent with, but surpassing, the work of Robert Shaw
and Michael Turvey (both at U Conn).
Shaw and Turvey's work are both well known as the foundations of
ecological psychology. A community
has developed the ecological psychology literature based on the work (starting
in the 1950s) by James Gibson.
Karl would bring us back into the literatures on behavior and
the origins of cognitive function.
But neither would tolerate this
much work and be in a situation of such exposure.