Robot Wisdom auxiliary

1st dimension: every human (in a line)

2nd dimension: the same (at 90 degrees)

at the intersections
the relationships of human to human

A's relationships to B, C, D...
B's to A, C, D...

 |
D| * *
C| * *
B| *
A| *
 +-----------
 A B C D

3rd dimension: every human again

with the intersections
their relations to others' relationships

A's relationship to
B's relationship to A

with ego blindness dominating here

 
 
 
 
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not just
in
every grain of sand

but in every field
of every database

(even the simplest:

name address age gender title
etc)

we
must
see
the whole potential universe

ie
all those simple fieldobjects'
real-or-potential
relationships
with all other fields/objects

naturally ordered
most-important first (a

literary

criterion
you must then
(now) begin
to spend the whole rest
of your life
studying)

as if
every field has an extra
asterisk p.s.

where anomalies are noted

(how certain is the value?
why or why not?
when and why did it last change?
etc)

 
 
 
 
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[this is the first
and hopefully the
least
articulate and
most
controversial
of a projected series]

any semantic web first needs
a mental model of all possible semantic webs
(and this mental model must include
a mental model of all possible
mental models)

say

mentally model each 'object'
(including mental objects)
as a named point
of known or unknown duration
(some objects
more important than others
from the perspective of any given mind)

with lines between points
modeling relationships between objects

relationships changing in time

relationships mentally modeled
by related mental objects

relations affecting
and affected by
(more or less strongly)
related relationships with other objects

(all mental models of relationships
necessarily related to the mental models
of all related objects
and of their relationships)


and mental models differ in depth
in wisdom
some shallow some deep

deep or shallow
in many different ways

different wisdoms
characteristic of the deep or shallow
people who hold them

but mental models of semantic webs
and mental models of mental models
must be deep by every definition

constructed atop a distillation
of all wisdoms
(art philosophy religion
politics economics history
fiction poetry humor
psychology philology anthropology sociobiology
criticism design logic math)
only by the wisest of the wise

.

this del.icio.us design experiment
is first of all intended as
an efficient ontology for
IMDb movie keywords

(a taxicab is a car is a vehicle is a prop)

substituting the theatrical
role-set-prop
for person-place-thing

and secondarily
a unification of all comparable ontologies
(roget polti adler barger lenat yahoo/dmoz)
and tagged web2.0 content

on the hypothesis that
movies (can) encompass all

the ontology defined
pragmatically (bottom up)
not philosophically (top down)
eg maybe:

props: vehicle weapon gizmo treasure clothing message container

sets: interior exterior road land sea weather

roles: girl kid buddy rival creature criminal cop stranger group maker mentor healer

prop:gizmo: phone camera clock weapon musicalinstrument

prop:message: letter sign file contract book magazine newspaper artwork

set:interior: store office bank theater club restaurant jail

(these 'literary' categories
being more artfi not scifi
seem to make nerds uncomfortable
but the semantic web movement
will just be spinning its wheels
until they're addressed)

 
 
 
 
 
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we can posit a series
of levels of significance
for database synching

least significant would be synching
the values of attributes
for particular instances

(each instance gets
a record or a row
each attribute
a field or a column)

then slightly more significant
the addition or subtraction
of whole row-record-instances

then adding or editing
attribute-field-columns
that apply to all record-row-instances

and finally
whole new database/speadsheet/tables
with new systems of attribute-field-columns
appropriate to a whole new
object type

and in object-oriented systems
these objects are associated too
with methods

but more generally we might rename
'methods' as 'story skeletons'

each object type participating
in a usual range of stories

object-creation stories
object-change stories
object-spawning-new-objects stories
object-destruction stories

and a whole universe of
object-relationships-to-other-object-types stories
most conveniently sorted
into a local copy of the object hierarchy
(ie a fractal thicket)

 
 
 
 
 
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