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Paola
It is very difficult for people including me to try and shed off preconceived notions and culturally indoctrinated beliefs. However, humanity has and could have progressed more if we could shed off this, accept people even when they say somethings are more ancient than Greece, or Greeks' communications to the rest of the west. Also what we wonders we could do if we used collective but reasoned wisdom, rather than filter out many things useful from our own view of the world.
Science is one and reasoning or logic another of few areas that allow to say, when I am gone and till other facts are found, --- is this idea or theory or understanding that I am presenting likely to survive, just as we study Darwin and other Rishis' or Mathematicians' works even centuries after they are gone?
Regards.
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Thanks.
Ravi
(Dr. Ravi Sharma)
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On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John
let me pick on one more important thing you say
My major complaint is that the people who developed the SemWeb
ignored the 50 years of R & D on that and many other subjects.
From what I observe, this is also a widespread phenomenon in many fields
amd its the result of how the 'scientific community' has evolved (reference to the article posted earlier on research cartels)
In modern knowledge management, we refer to a pathology called ' organisational amnesia', indicating the knowledge that escapes when
experts move on
In modern sciences, such as technological sciences, there are chunks of reality which are
systematically left out from the BOK, for various reasons. Sometimes is due to the need to simplify , sometimes is convenience, other time is ignorance, or pure strategy
After travelling quite a lot, I look back at the books that I was brough up with as a child, and I see very clearly so many false statements we were indoctrinated with as kids. It results from forcing 'real world' into schemas, to fix reality into defined points of space and time, when actually they are both relative to each other.
Happens in science, but also history, geography. *remeber the definition of 'river' discussion?
We have seem from various examples how what is attributed to Aristotele and the Greeks by modern literature, is actually faar more ancient
and geographically dislocated thant 'classical Greece', there is a political reason why we get
But this also happens between disciplines: any rigorous disciplinary approach, in order to stay valid must disregard axioms knowl/accepted to other disciplines
(luckily that's changing a bit, but the transition to interdisciplinarity its slow painful and full of dead bodies)
Of course we cannot expect every research programme to take into account 'all the knowledge' in all fields to date (would not be feasible)
Of course we are all likely to make errors and omissions cause also as humans we have cognitive limitations (actually, apparently there is no known limit of the human brain to momorise facts, which is fascinating, but we cannot remember everything that we know all at the same time, and when we
do, it cannot come across coherently) So even when we know things, we can easily lapse on them, dont you love human nature :-)
The power of collective intelligence that I hope for the web is not simply on the ability of supporting technologies to churn vasts amount of real time data, bless it, but also to extend MEMORY to support not only reasoning power and also as ability to store, retrieve , cross reference much larger sets of facts from different sources/accounts, and query 'historical data' and their respective contexts - necessary to achieve Knowledge
A massively expandable parallel external drive. then we would really have less excuses to justify ignorance, and the many wars that are caused over it
PDM
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