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Oh, Paola, here's another Russell quote that might
go into a signature:
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
lol,
Christopher
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Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:54
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontologies
as social mediators(was:Ontologydevelopment method)
Christopher
thanks for reminding us for Russel's
quote
Bertrand Russell's "The trouble with the world
is that the stupid
are cocksure and the intelligent are full of
doubt.")
added it to my signature just for fun
:-)
RE. Koestler
I read (and cited) excerpts from the Ghost in the
Machine, was not aware of the book you mention below
but since looking it
up it looks he wrote a lot of stuff , wonder how difficult its going to be to
get hold of these books in the library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler
PDM
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Christopher
Spottiswoode <cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ferenc, many thanks for picking up (below) on my reference
to
Koestler! (and please pardon me for reverting to the list on
this
matter, but it's most handy in my gradual and
tentative
presentation of the MACK-indicated work-in-progress toolset,
and
my testing where it might already ring other people's
bells...)
As you know, Koestler in his 1964 book, The Act of
Creation,
generalized his notion of 'bisociation' over the three fields
of
humour, science and art. Well, I generalize it further to
cover
any reconceptualization or conceptual change, then specialize
it,
in an "ontology"-based or data-driven way, so that it applies
to
every canonical state-transition in a MACK-compliant
processing
environment. In a precisely-defined way, that manages
differences
through time or between viewpoints, on top of an explicit
degree
of continuity or commonality. Hence the MACK notion of
'context',
which involves an ever-changing or kaleidoscopic new light on
the
particular given and basic facts of the situation, with
an
intuitiveness very similar to that of good
multi-windowed
applications.
But the ease with which such
behaviour may be orchestrated and
choreographed, and the extent to which
much of that will take
place automatically, always in an optionally open
and negotiating
mode, is entirely thanks to the degrees of orthogonality
which the
evolution of life has discovered or invented between
our
complementary conceptions of aspects of reality. That is
the
exciting process of "real ontology" that is The Mainstream
which
we can ride and exploit so much better.
So it is a picture
of the creation of relevant simplifications of
an ambient complexity, a
picture which is itself very simple,
really. It covers all of life,
and finds one significant answer
to the meaning of the relationship
between knower and Known: we
can always do better. So it will
in due course be universally
seen and exploited as such. Yet the
resulting marketing process
of products meeting needs will ever remain
influencible by its
participants and stakeholders. It will thereby
be more democratic
than any other systematic conception of
democracy.
Thanks again, Ferenc, and best regards,
To: "Christopher Spottiswoode" < cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent:
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum]
Ontologies as social mediators (was:Ontologydevelopment
method)
You wrote:
I have a new metaphor
which portrays that dynamic process. It
further builds on the
Koestler view of creativity as "bisociation"
from one reference-frame to
another. (I had introduced that view
on slide 24 of the slideshow I
had prepared for my once-scheduled
contribution to the Standards and
Ontologies Summit last April and
which, with its many added notes, is now
at
http://TheMainstream.info/RTM.html.)"
Koestler's
bisociation is an intuitive observation of the possible
physical form of
thoughts - a kind of phase transition where
expectation is in one phase
and the actual input is in another
phase casuing a lind of blast, just as
in high voltage
electricity, that appears as a burst of laughter. Similar
mental
tensions and stresses often result in sudden "shocks" that may
be
taken literally as soon as observation supports the
assumption.
Regards, ferenc
--
Paola Di
Maio
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The trouble with
the world is that the stupid
are cocksure and the intelligent are full of
doubt
Bertrand
Russell
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