Ah, yes.
Well, Yeats' (non-identical) twin to the Russell aphorism appeared as one
row in the table I have already pointed the list to, in my opening post for this
thread, namely: http://jeffsutherland.com/oopsla97/SpottiswoodeByndBO.html#table, and the table was prefaced partly by this
parenthesis: "(and where we may note that neither side [of the 2-column
table] has a monopoly of either good or bad, and ambivalences
abound)"
But oh, Azamat, I would never try to be
encyclopedic on "stupidity"! Nor even on "intelligence" ... or
"creativity", for that matter. And btw, I am still mulling over my planned
essay on the cardinal Ontological sin of even thinking of being
encyclopedic in even the smallest "ontology", for that misses the point of
abstraction and would tend to preclude validly different or creatively new
perspectives.
Christopher
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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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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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3:54 PM
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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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