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No quarrel from me on that one. Reading their list postings without a grounding in chaos and complexity theory is pretty much useless. Ever taken a look at the quantum models for human thought? See the SEED site that Edwina Taborsky et al manage. Still, there is baby in the bathwater. These guys have better credentials for what they are doing than TimBL did for hypertext. And maybe they will get a few more things right up front rather than after ten years of cherry picking the credentialed brains of others. On the other hand, I think a lot of what they write is based on years of cherry picking, so maybe they are in need of simplifying assumptions. How well one can apply predicate logic tends to be constrained by how well one can establish a value as a "fact" instead of simply an assertion. There is something to be said for the position that all we get back from topic maps or the semantic web is opinions. I tend to favor the computational semiotics approach, but possibly because I find models such as Ricardo Gudwin's model for evaluating intelligence from a computational semiotics perspective to be implementable, understandable, and amenable to XML. It takes a lot of picking to get a simple tune that both sells and is original. len From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > "I'm attempting to approach knowledge science by first "red-shifting" the operating system. That shift in systemic approach is first realized by conjectively shifting all data when received immediately into a convolution of the data against a sense-of-conjecture, and in so doing, literally create a scale of meaning along the one dimension of sense as a memory retrieval mechanism via ordinal position along this scale of sense. Sounds like a bunch of BS dressed up in $10 words ("conjectively"!?!?). This is the kind of stuff that has given KR a bad name. Mind you, as TimBL points out, hypertext was getting a bad name in the early nineties. -Tim
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