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Bertrand Russell's "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.")
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Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:34
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontologies
as socialmediators(was:Ontologydevelopment method)
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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