As new comer to IT Ontology (but not to Cybernetics and IT) I draw your
attention to
some foundational work done on a dynamic protolanguage (Lp) by the late
Gordon Pask
which I interpret as follows: (01)
Assume eternal spin processes produce finite bounded products. This
satisfies a need
for a wave mechanical basis. See the productions as establishing relations
or
derivations. Thereafter establish the necessary conditions for the
production of a
product, description or coherence or, indeed, entity. (02)
This came out of Pask's "Interactions of Actors" (IA) work and developed
from his
Conversation Theory (CT) supported by entailment meshes. Concept maps are
similar
but in CT there are strict interpretations of analogy, ambiguity etc. and
the
transfer of meaningful information. Key is the liberal definition of concept
as a
recursively packed persisting spin process in ANY medium. Strictly, he says,
concepts are not a set of things but a procedure for producing a relation.
All
things/entities interact and are dynamic (kinetic not kinematic). (03)
The potential axioms are introduced at
http://www.cybsys.co.uk/ProtoforMeta.htm.
They lay the ground rules for a protolanguage. In the note hierarchical
prunings of
the protolanguage entailment process graph are presented as a hierarchy of
error
driven management (or control) metalanguages from Beer's Viable System Model
which might be characterised as a semilattice of time constants. (04)
There is also a suggestion for disambiguating the classification problem
both at
both the Gedanken and practical level with spin spectra. (05)
Some of this is counter intuitive at first - but that's what makes it worth
saying.
Agreement is necessary about the significance of similarities and difference
but
Beer's Viable Systems Model provides a procedure for monitoring differences
from expectation of the performance of the underlying Lp processes. The work
has come out studies of the problem of self organization (Pask) or autonomy
(Beer). (06)
Thus we begin, I hope, to suggest elements that might aid production of a
rigorous "common basis" applicable to productions in all domains. (07)
Nick Green FCybS (08)
Cybernetics Society (09)
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