Agreed! (01)
Ronald (02)
On 26 Jan 2011, at 12:44, John F. Sowa wrote: (03)
> Ronald and Pat,
>
> There is no such thing as a single, ideal ontology that captures
> every useful way of looking at everything from every possible
> perspective and granularity for every purpose.
>
> There are many different theories of contexts, situations,
> and situated communicating and interacting agents. Those
> systems, theories, and implementations are valuable and
> efficient for many kinds of purposes. In fact, they reflect
> the way people happen to be situated in some finite chunk
> of reality from one moment to the next.
>
> But other representations are useful for different applications,
> and there are systematic ways of converting one to the other.
> In particular, it's important to communicate with situated agents
> in terms of the situation in which they are operating.
>
> When an accident is imminent, you don't want to send a driver
> (or the car) a fully-qualified 4D specification. You just want
> to say "STOP!"
>
> Fundamental principle: Any single uniform universal representation
> is guaranteed to be awkward, inconvenient, or inefficient for a huge
> number of critical applications.
>
> John
>
>
>
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