Christopher, (01)
You hit the point. The natural unity of world knowledge is badly destroyed
by the modern system of scientific, formal research and education. (02)
For example, the harmful consequences of the greenhouse effect were
explained by S. Arrenhuis. Only because the fragmented learning could not
be available to the right people in the right place at the right time, the
phenomenon should be reopened again after a hundred year. (03)
Division of labor and increasingly narrowing specialization are making
knowledge irreparably fragmented and scattered and thus producing a
confusing multitude of disunited scientific and technological communities
and associations, often duplicating the same R&D programs even within the
same community, like the semantic web projects here in EU. (04)
Due to modern information technologies and particularly the Net, there is a
sea wealth of information recorded in gigantic databases. This may be
mastered only by more advanced information technology, knowledge machines
with the built-in common ontology framework, a single code of fundamental
standards, principles, rules, and laws, suggesting a broad, integrated model
of things in the world. What may alter the whole knowledge production system
in an essential way, ending up in a radically new type of human society, the
intellectual knowledge society, driven by ontological semantic technology
(for more details, download a draft of the article: Ontology, Semantic
Technology, and Knowledge Society, from the site: http://www.eis.com.cy). (05)
Regards,
Azamat Abdoullaev (06)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Spottiswoode" <cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ONTAC-WG General Discussion" <ontac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [ontac-forum] Problems of ontology (07)
> Azamat, John, all,
>
> AA> ... the task of ontology is to give us the overall
>> structures, uniformities, patterns, laws and constraints
>> within which all the many changes in the world take place...
>
> JS> I don't disagree. My only point is that it might take us
>> millions of years to get a complete answer. We certainly
>> don't have anything remotely resembling a final solution
>> today -- or even a good outline of a final solution.
>
> Isn't there a middle way? How about an upper ontology for
> human-universal pragmatics (if I may risk miscommunication with
> that choice of words...)? Something like this :-
>
> The upper ontology asymptote we might first seek would be one
> which frames the overall structures, uniformities, patterns,
> laws and constraints in the human knowledge discovery and
> creation process as we currently find it, so as to better enable
> collaboration (better than the previous version, that is)
> between all the various overlapping and intermingled bodies of
> people presently on planet Earth.
>
> Surely, as John might say, small groups of people often work
> most effectively together by totally ignoring their neighbours.
> But we do have global problem-areas, from global e-commerce
> through global resource management.perhaps to global
> e-government. And scary though such notions often are, there
> are many pressing realities clamouring for attention, and many
> existing examples in how to divide and balance powers.
>
> It may be that some lattice such as John proposes is the best
> route to such a pragmatic facilitating mechanism. But it may
> also be that there is a more direct route, somewhere...
>
> Christopher
>
>
>
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