Technological Innovation as
an Evolutionary Process
On the Anticipatory Web technology
5/1/2004
12:26 PM
Short “Systems AS-IS”
Paper
Short “Finding the Balance” Paper
previous discussion on
“structural holonomy” -> .
We are anticipating
business and scholarship relationships that bring our discussion into the
context of the National Project
planning process.
I have
created the language about an Anticipatory Web of
Information as an alternative to the notion of an AI like semantic
web.
Several
groups will be central to the new manufacturing sectors. I know of many
of these works. Those whom I know, know the rest. The Founding Committee of the BCNGroup is
to be composed by members from these groups.
The
Russian applied semiotics work had several areas of application, in addition to
linguistics and various aspects on bio-informatics and production
control. All bio-chemical warfare work was at least described in a
Russian VINITI database in terms of quasi-axiomatic theory and
Pospelov/Osipov's semiotics control systems
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/manhattan/Osipov.htm
and the
key here was the function/structure relationships, called Q-SAR or qualitative
structural activity relationship grids. These grids look something like
the latent semantic indexing matrix, with some tensor mathematics over fiber
bundles (of categories of abstraction). (What follows next is
un-published mathematics.)
In my
private work, Russian QAT based Q-SAR has
become eventChemistry. The Russians had thousands of PhDs working on this
for several decades. The thinking was quite different from even
works by the Western bio-mathematicians largely due to the differences in folk
psychology. In the Former Soviet Union, the political need was to control
individual human being and even cities. In the West, this was never even
considered.
The
problem of complexity was more deeply understood in the Soviet Union than in
the US or Europe.
At
first, there was absolutely no traction in the West (1988 - 1998) as Pospelov's
and Finn's work became known, partially due to the series of conferences hosted
by the US Army and NIST. Now, I can see here and there an adoption of
some of the deeper insights in regard to the control of natural systems having
points of response degeneracy (underdetermined function). (e.g. the same
bag of atoms may be gathered together to produce radically different functions
as compounds. Similarly, compounds having radically different bags of
atoms might perform the same function.) In linguistics this
is the ambiguation/disambiguation
issue and the issue of double articulation.
The bio-mass conversation work is interesting but the market
has to be developed and involves many aspects other than the computational
"controllers". By controller, we have to mean controller for
physical engineered system, Peter Krieg’s term, where the system's
behavior is underdetermined at real time at tipping points. These
undetermined points involve an interaction between the complex system's
endophysics and the environmental exophysics that leads to an emergence of the
actual state achieved. My papers on Process Compartment Hypothesis (PCH)
are relevant:
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/kmbook/Chapter1.htm
The PCH
points out that natural systems - living systems - have stability that collapses
and reforms periodically. String theory has a lot of usefulness
here as a means to describe the process of collapse, emergence and then
stability. The point is that stability is the rule and the
collapse-reformation event the exception. Most times, even people are
predictable. It is the ontology of the tipping points that makes a full
understanding possible. At these tipping points a mutual induction
between a computational knowledge base, an Orb, can lead to several different
outcomes (with very little energy expenditure).
Information
about the categorical compositions in the formative substructure and about the
event chemistries that the environmental conditions will tolerate, leads to
semiotic control using a selection over many "logics".
One needs this cA and eC information, AND knowledge of when a tipping point is
about to occur. (See again, Osipov's note to me - first URL above).
What
one means by underdetermined physical engineered system is something that has
not been developed in the science literature in a simple and coherent
fashion. There are reasons for this that has to do with the bias towards
the notion that engineered systems have to be deterministic. The role of
measurement becomes critical.
I
actually know very little at this point how the German polylogics system works,
but many have been looking for some computational means to simulate the tipping
points in systems that periodically have response degeneracy (to use Edelman's
term).
I
mentioned the patent issue because patents are very costly in the way they are
normally handled, and as a consequence I think there is a opportunity that is
missed. The provisional patent really has the form of a scientific
publication rather than the form of a number of claims that are somewhat
non-communicative in nature.
I also
know that in some cases, the concepts that are not understood by the
mathematics and science community are exceedingly simple.
These concepts can be taught to children, and is to be developed as part of the
knowledge science curriculum.