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DIARY: February 21, 2000 11:37 AM Monday; Rod Welch

Colloquium reviews challenge of education; universal ontology for web.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Education Can be Improved Through Augment
3...Collective IQ Molded by Early Education, Presents Challenge of Change
4...Societal DKR Provide Appropriate Control on Encyclopedic Subjects
5...Ontology Organizes Information Structures, Like Subject Indexing
.....Ontology Keywords Classify Conceptualizations Relationships
....Planning and Assignments for Ontology
....Keywords Ontology Pandora's Box Dilemma Organizing Complexity
....Knowledge Management Dilemma Organizing Complexity into Summary
....Ontology Context Management with Granular Subject Indexing
....Knowledge Management Organization to Make Sense of Complexity
....Pandora's Box Dilemma Organizing Complexity Ontology Keywords
....Organize Daily Information Difficult Pandora's Box of Complexity
........Scale Managing Daily Record Compounds Complexity of Indexing
........Context Management Dynamic Work Complex Powerful Knowledge Tool


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SUBJECTS
Collective IQ
Education System

0604 -
0604 -    ..
0605 - Summary/Objective
0606 -
060601 - Follow up ref SDS 38 0000, ref SDS 37 0000.
060602 -
060603 - Henry Van Eykan presents a strong case for applying Colloquium augment
060604 - capabilities to education. ref SDS 0 8967  Jack Park proposes that the
060605 - Colloquium develop a common ontology to make it easier to manage
060606 - knowledge on the web. ref SDS 0 8044  Eric Armstrong requests sources
060607 - for guiding development.  Jack submits sources indicating that subject
060608 - management is difficult, a Pandora's box. ref SDS 0 3248
060609 -
060611 -  ..
0607 -
0608 -
0609 - Progress
061001 -  ..
061002 - Education Can be Improved Through Augment
061003 -
061004 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Henry van Eykan, responding to a letter
061005 - from Erick Armstrong (quoted in part, but not expressly identified,
061006 - nor linked, ref DRT 1 5412) and proposing that the principles of the
061007 - Colloquium be applied to education and, through that, to society at
061008 - large.
061009 -
061010 -
061012 -  ..
061013 - Collective IQ Molded by Early Education, Presents Challenge of Change
061014 -
061015 - Henry comments that the school system casts minds in forms that guide
061016 - values and conduct for a lifetime, which makes the "Collective IQ,"
061017 - hard-to-bend and therefore an obstacle to progress. ref DRT 1 0954
061018 -
061020 -  ..
061021 - Societal DKR Provide Appropriate Control on Encyclopedic Subjects
061022 -
061023 - Henry proposes a societal DKR, something encyclopedic in core set-up,
061024 - but with "formal" subject areas in some form of authorative (but not
061025 - autocratic) control of appropriate bodies, with a means of updating
061026 - that makes for efficient (easy, pleasurable) use, with some graded
061027 - approach to accomodate readers' "learning sets" (i.e. what they
061028 - already have in their very own mental kits), etc., etc. ref DRT 1 2870
061030 -  ..
061031 - This relates in part to review of Prometheus that led to analysis
061032 - showing that literacy declines as a result of cultural pressures that
061033 - arise from fitting in to an organization and performing work as a
061034 - memeber of a team and organization, reviewed on 991108. ref SDS 19
061035 - 7380
061036 -
061037 -      [On 000223 Henry asks how "education" would fit into the system.
061038 -      ref SDS 40 1254]
061039 -
061040 -
061041 -
061042 -
0611 -

SUBJECTS
Pandora's Box Ontology Complex Organic Structure Context Subject Ind

4603 -
460401 -  ..
460402 - Ontology Organizes Information Structures, Like Subject Indexing
460403 -
460404 - Follow up ref SDS 38 8044, ref SDS 37 0765,
460405 -
460406 - Received letter from Jack Park, ref DRT 2 0001, citing a letter from
460407 - Eric Armstrong on 000219 explaining organic subject structures.
460408 - ref SDS 37 0765
460410 -  ..
460411 - Jack suggests building an "ontology" for the web.  He argues that
460412 - without a consistent "ontology" the web might just grow into an
460413 - unsearchable maze of information.  With one, the web might become a
460414 - gigantic knowledge base. ref DRT 2 2993
460415 -
460416 -   Need example of ontology for managing knowledge to save time and
460417 -   improve earnings.
460418 -
460419 -        [On 000607 example given of working ontology turned out to a
460420 -        mistake. ref SDS 55 0001
460422 -         ..
460423 -        [On 000623 Jack proposes concensus ontology for DKR.
460424 -        ref SDS 56 9900
460426 -         ..
460427 -        [On 001011 suggested research project to develop system for
460428 -        managing organic subject structures. ref SDS 58 FZ4F
460430 -         ..
460431 -        [On 001013 notified Jack about SRI initiative. ref SDS 59 5Y4L
460433 -  ..
460434 - Below, Jack relates the difficulty (Pandora's Box) of this task, also
460435 - explained in POIMS. ref SDS 0 7455
460436 -
460437 -      [On 000223 contributor asks how "education" would fit into the
460438 -      system. ref SDS 40 1254]
460439 -
460440 -      [On 000407 listed ontologies as agenda item for project team
460441 -      meetings. ref SDS 50 2752
460443 -       ..
460444 -      [On 000331 discussed subject management with Jack. ref SDS 48
460445 -      1274
460447 -       ..
460448 -      [On 000405 Jack urges DKR project to develop ontologies.
460449 -      ref SDS 49 1548
460451 -  ..
460452 - Jack does not define "ontology" but it sounds like a "taxonomy" that
460453 - classifies existence (see later submission of definition, ref SDS 0
460454 - 6W6N) with keywords for filing documents in records management, and
460455 - from epistomology using keywords for organizing fields of study,
460456 - particularly in formal education, e.g, language, math, science,
460457 - history, music, gardening, engineering, agriculture, government...
460458 -
460459 -        [On 000301 reviewed epistomology. ref SDS 45 7315
460461 -  ..
460462 - Ontology sounds like a primary level of "organic structure" for SDS
460463 - subject indexing that organizes and assembles information into chunks
460464 - of related context showing the chronology of cause and effect, which
460465 - is a more general form of "knowledge" that builds and maintains shared
460466 - meaning, from connectionist theory in cognitive science, reviewed on
460467 - 900303. ref SDS 4 0052 and ref SDS 4 0404
460469 -  ..
460470 - Organic subject structures in SDS are explained on 890523.
460471 - ref SDS 1 SQ5L
460472 -
460474 -      ..
460475 -     Ontology Keywords Classify Conceptualizations Relationships
460476 -
460477 -     Jack later provided a source to a web site for...
460478 -
460479 -                        AIFT OntoServer
460480 -
460481 -               http://ontoserver.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/
460483 -      ..
460484 -     Tom Gruber focuses on Knowledge Management, and says...
460485 -
460486 -               http://ksl-web.stanford.edu/people/gruber/
460487 -
460488 -     ..."ontology" is borrowed from philosophy where it refers to the
460489 -     subject of existence. ref OF 5 5950  He creates ontologies for
460490 -     knowledge sharing, ref OF 5 3692, but says it is not epistomology,
460491 -     ref OF 5 5950  Tom uses "ontology" as a conceptual framework to
460492 -     specify relationships for agents, called a "conceptualization."
460493 -     Knowledge and agent are not defined. ref OF 5 1472  Tom says
460494 -     ontology need not be limited to taxonomy. ref OF 5 1706  Tom
460495 -     designs ontologies to share knowledge by writing definitions of
460496 -     vocabulary for common use among agents.
460497 -
460498 -          [On 080315 oncology to taxonomy, and metadata related to
460499 -          semantic web. ref SDS 81 XT9V
460501 -  ..
460502 - Seems to be an AI effort, and "agents" are software programs.
460503 - ref OF 5 3692  Sounds like part of Widerhold's "mediators" reviewed on
460504 - 940603. ref SDS 6 0786
460506 -  ..
460507 - This fits the initial impression, per above. ref SDS 0 9270
460508 -
460509 -        [On 000606 another defintion of ontology. ref SDS 54 5897
460511 -         ..
460512 -        [On 000311 reviewed epistomology. ref SDS 45 1034 and
460513 -        ref SDS 45 7315
460515 -         ..
460516 -        [On 000405 Jack urges DKR project to develop ontologies.
460517 -        ref SDS 49 1548
460519 -         ..
460520 -        [On 000515 ontology is part of Peirce's philosophy for a
460521 -        semotic theory of knowledge that examins the structure of the
460522 -        world (elements and relations of existence. ref SDS 52 0784
460524 -         ..
460525 -        [On 001130 Jack proposes ontology "engine" to improve SDS by
460526 -        automating links and subjects. ref SDS 61 GK8O
460528 -         ..
460529 -        [On 001214 Jack proposes use cases to develop ontology based on
460530 -        Qualitative Process Theory (QPT). ref SDS 62 0001
460532 -      ..
460533 -     Another source, Roger Clarke......
460534 -
460535 -                       Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au
460536 -
460537 -     ....with the Department Computer Science, Australian National
460538 -     University....
460539 -
460540 -           http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Know.html
460542 -      ..
460543 -     ...explains "ontology" in relation to defining "knowledge," as....
460544 -
460545 -         .... the study of what exists. The opposing views are
460546 -         'materialism', which holds that anything that exists can be
460547 -         detected through the senses, and 'idealism', which says that
460548 -         everything exists in the mind, and that the 'real world' that
460549 -         we think we see is only a shared idea.  ... non-philosophers
460550 -         find a compromise, recognising both external realities (the
460551 -         secular world) and internal mind-stuff (the spiritual world).
460553 -  ..
460554 - This fits the initial impression, per above. ref SDS 0 9270
460556 -  ..
460557 - Jack recommends the DKR design process consider using an interlingua
460558 - (artificial international language for science developed from 1924 -
460559 - 1951) a common ontology on which all users can base their actions.
460560 - Creating node types on the fly, IMHO, set out in Eric's letter on
460561 - 000219, ref SDS 37 0765, flies against the winds of usability.
460562 - ref DRT 2 1711
460564 -  ..
460565 - On 990415 this was one of the deliverables for the NSF project.
460566 - ref SDS 17 1610 and ref SDS 17 5124
460568 -  ..
460569 - Yesterday, Eric lists "organization" as one of several features for
460570 - managing documents and references submitted to the Colloquium.
460571 - ref SDS 38 8044  Jack's suggestion seems to advance that objective.
460572 -
460574 -     ..
460575 -    Planning and Assignments for Ontology
460576 -
460577 -    Eric submitted ref DRT 3 0001 concuring with Jack's recommendation,
460578 -    and setting out planning and research questions, ref DRT 3 2964,
460579 -    as follows...
460580 -
460581 -     • Who/what is pursuing the goal of "an ontology for the Web"?
460583 -        ..
460584 -     • Which of the ontology references in the list Jack submitted
460585 -       yesterday, ref DRP 14 3248, would Jack reccommend most highly?
460586 -       ref SDS 38 2968
460588 -        ..
460589 -       Are there others you prefer?
460591 -        ..
460592 -       Any good books?
460593 -
460594 -         [On 000407 listed ontologies as agenda item for project team
460595 -         meetings. ref SDS 50 2752
460596 -
460598 -     ..
460599 -    Keywords Ontology Pandora's Box Dilemma Organizing Complexity
460600 -    Knowledge Management Dilemma Organizing Complexity into Summary
460601 -
460602 -    Jack Park responded to Eric, ref DRT 4 0001, recommending the
460603 -    work of...
460604 -
460605 -                            Brian Gaines
460606 -
460607 -    ...ref DRT 4 4320, especially at
460608 -
460609 -           http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/
460610 -
460611 -    ...Jack reports access problems to this site.
460613 -     ..
460614 -    Jack cites projects like
460615 -
460616 -                          Sysiphis
460617 -
460618 -    ...and many others, most of which have underlying a notion of an
460619 -    ontology.
460620 -
460622 -     ..
460623 -    Jack's current favorite book is
460624 -
460625 -                        John F. Sowa
460626 -                        Knowledge Representation (1999).
460628 -     ..
460629 -    Jack further suggests work by Robert Rosen...
460630 -
460631 -          http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/rosen.htm
460632 -
460633 -    ...and back up to Don Mikulecky's home page to get even deeper
460634 -    into discussions regarding knowledge representation in truly
460635 -    complex domains. ref DRT 4 4324
460636 -
460638 -     ..
460639 -    Ontology Context Management with Granular Subject Indexing
460640 -    Knowledge Management Organization to Make Sense of Complexity
460641 -    Pandora's Box Dilemma Organizing Complexity Ontology Keywords
460642 -    Organize Daily Information Difficult Pandora's Box of Complexity
460643 -
460644 -    Jack feels the OHS/DKR project should develop technology that helps
460645 -    people make sense of complex daily working information.  OHS/DKR
460646 -    technology can create knowledge representation, which is summarized
460647 -    by a new term, "ontology," and seems to use keywords that organize
460648 -    the record of daily work into classifications, categories, topics,
460649 -    etc., cited in Jack's earlier letter this evening, reported above,
460650 -    ref SDS 0 9270, and explained further in a second letter.
460651 -    ref SDS 0 6W6N
460653 -     ..
460654 -    Jack like's Rosen's book "Life Itself."  He says, "Tough read,
460655 -    though.  If you choose to go there, you're opening up what I
460656 -    consider to be the pandora's box of everything Doug is talking
460657 -    about." ref DRT 4 3872
460658 -
460660 -         ..
460661 -        Scale Managing Daily Record Compounds Complexity of Indexing
460662 -        Context Management Dynamic Work Complex Powerful Knowledge Tool
460663 -
460664 -        Complexity of context management to organize the dynamic record
460665 -        of daily work is explained in POIMS, ref OF 2 0582, and
460666 -        reflects problem of scale cited in Doug Engelbart's 1992 paper
460667 -        on Groupware, reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 21 1596
460669 -         ..
460670 -        As noted above, organic subject structures developed for SDS
460671 -        were reviewed on 890523. ref SDS 1 SQ5L  The complexity of
460672 -        granular indexing organic subject structure for context
460673 -        management was explained on 890523 citing thousands of details
460674 -        that cannot be seen in the "big picture," but which control
460675 -        results to save lives, time, and money. ref SDS 1 428F
460677 -         ..
460678 -        Later, on 891117 limitations of keyword systems were cited,
460679 -        ref SDS 2 0005; an example on 891201 demonstrated keyword
460680 -        methods. ref SDS 3 3W50  SDS organic structures for subject
460681 -        indexing were effective. ref SDS 3 3W8S  On 960322 traditional
460682 -        keyword records management for filing documents was reviewed.
460683 -        ref SDS 9 6544  MIT procedures and practices illustrate keyword
460684 -        methods, for ontology, ref SDS 9 PX54, which SDS tries to
460685 -        strengthen with a process of organic structure to manage
460686 -        document content, ref SDS 9 G65K, and for the purpose of
460687 -        greater reliance on the record to guide daily work that
460688 -        increases accuracy, and so reduces mistakes, and also increases
460689 -        creativity for solving problems.
460691 -         ..
460692 -        SDS subject indexing has 4 major differences from other
460693 -        methods, also, listed on 960322. ref SDS 9 EN87
460695 -         ..
460696 -        On 910418 difficulty of subject indexing explained in Byte
460697 -        article. ref SDS 5 5584  More recently, on 970116 reviewed
460698 -        challenge of managing the complexity of context with organic
460699 -        structure, described as "fractionalized subjects, ref SDS 11
460700 -        1732, and which makes knowledge management a lot of hard work
460701 -        that seems beyond reach, and so people give up using
460702 -        conventional tools and practices.  Another Internet address
460703 -        with helpful ideas is at....
460704 -
460705 -             http://www.atlasti.de/atlasneu.html
460707 -           ..
460708 -          [On 000222 Eric responds. ref SDS 39 8044]
460710 -           ..
460711 -          [On 000223 contributor asks how "education" would fit into
460712 -          a DKR system. ref SDS 40 1254]
460714 -           ..
460715 -          [On 000225 example of meaning drifting apart. ref SDS 41 0897
460717 -           ..
460718 -          [On 000227 Eric cites benefits of organizing Internet.
460719 -          ref SDS 42 0937]
460721 -           ..
460722 -          [On 000229 Jack submits research sources on the mathamatics
460723 -          of knowledge. ref SDS 43 0987]
460725 -           ..
460726 -          [On 000307 a lot of hard work is needed to organize
460727 -          complexity of knowledge. ref SDS 44 5182
460729 -           ..
460730 -          [On 000327 Doug Engelbart skeptical that a breakthrough in
460731 -          knowledge management is not possible. ref SDS 46 4420
460733 -           ..
460734 -          [On 000330 Marcello Hoffman related that no Knowledge
460735 -          Management solution has been developed. ref SDS 47 0713
460737 -           ..
460738 -          [On 000405 Jack urges DKR project to develop ontologies.
460739 -          ref SDS 49 1548
460741 -           ..
460742 -          [...Paul Fernhout relates the difficulty of this work.
460743 -          ref SDS 49 0005
460745 -           ..
460746 -          [On 000407 proposed as agenda item for project meetings.
460747 -          ref SDS 50 4757
460749 -           ..
460750 -          [On 000503 Eric Armstrong reports "knowledge" is not well
460751 -          enough understood to develop Knowledge Management tools,
460752 -          ref SDS 51 5033, explains what we are trying to accomplish to
460753 -          improve communication, collaboration, organize information
460754 -          can be done with email. ref SDS 51 F82E
460756 -           ..
460757 -          [On 000602 Jack advises that Ontologos has implmented an
460758 -          effective "ontology." ref SDS 53 TM7I
460760 -           ..
460761 -          [On 000607 reference in Ontologos to work product turned out
460762 -          to be a mistake; there is no work product showing anyone has
460763 -          created an "engine" to build an ontology, nor is using
460764 -          anything like SDS to manage subjects. ref SDS 55 0001
460766 -           ..
460767 -          [On 000623 Jack proposes concensus ontology for DKR.
460768 -          ref SDS 56 9900, and an engine to create topic maps.
460769 -          ref SDS 56 2915
460771 -           ..
460772 -          [On 001008 Eric Armstrong feels graphical lens technology
460773 -          does not handle complexity well. ref SDS 57 N38W
460775 -           ..
460776 -          [On 001011 suggested research project to develop system for
460777 -          managing organic subject structures. ref SDS 58 FZ4F
460779 -           ..
460780 -          [On 001013 notified Jack about SRI initiative. ref SDS 59
460781 -          5Y4L and, ref SDS 58 M4R8
460783 -           ..
460784 -          [On 001025 Paul Fernhout explains creating an engine that
460785 -          builds a topic map is difficult. ref SDS 60 LR6N
460787 -           ..
460788 -          [On 001220 Jack requested link to this record to review his
460789 -          remarks in context. ref SDS 63 OK4K
460791 -           ..
460792 -          [On 010124 adding 3rd party links using BrowseUp Pandora's
460793 -          Box of risk. ref SDS 64 00FO
460795 -           ..
460796 -          [On 010221 Michael Zack cites subject matter management to
460797 -          create, appy and maintain categories is the most important
460798 -          new role need to perform Knowledge Management. ref SDS 65
460799 -          Q47K
460801 -           ..
460802 -          [On 011003 Eric Armstrong frustrated information overload
460803 -          paralizes productivity; analysis hopeless quagmire,
460804 -          ref SDS 66 EC5N, wants system of catagories. ref SDS 66 SW9L
460806 -           ..
460807 -          [On 020321 Kanisa reports progress organizing and classifying
460808 -          content to improve productivity of call centers where people
460809 -          get technical support. ref SDS 67 V79I
460811 -           ..
460812 -          [On 021108 Bill Gates reported Microsoft is working on a
460813 -          project to enable people to find information stored on
460814 -          computers that becomes useless because nobody can find
460815 -          anything with tools and practices commonly available.
460816 -          ref SDS 68 EF5I
460818 -           ..
460819 -          [On 030531 Gary Johnson discusses need for editing subjects
460820 -          on SDS Control Fields to manage context. ref SDS 69 7K5G
460822 -           ..
460823 -          [On 040102 Gary Johnson proposes new system to make managing
460824 -          lessons learned fast and easier without Control Fields
460825 -          because Control Fields are unfamiliar and disrupt narrative.
460826 -          ref SDS 70 PA68
460828 -           ..
460829 -          [On 040622 Jack cited complexity theory requires tools and
460830 -          practices for making sense of continuous information that
460831 -          overwhelms span of attention with expanding complexity.
460832 -          ref SDS 71 FM5W
460834 -           ..
460835 -          [On 041208 Murray Altheim requests feedback on pilot testing
460836 -          his software project for organizing notes into different
460837 -          subjects that aid writing; a survey illustrates how to engage
460838 -          customers in paying attention to Cyerle for supporting tasks
460839 -          people care about. ref SDS 72 P67J
460841 -           ..
460842 -          [On 060211 Jack reports that the CALO team at SRI has
460843 -          released Open Iris that supports ontology work with a Data
460844 -          Query Builder system. ref SDS 73 R64T
460846 -           ..
460847 -          [On 060523 SRI seminar presents ideas on merging ontologies,
460848 -          ref SDS 74 UK6Q, which compounds the complexity problem Jack
460849 -          raises today. ref SDS 0 L58O
460851 -           ..
460852 -          [On 060713 Jack requested review of a pending paper with
460853 -          ideas on merging ontologies, that continues to encounter the
460854 -          complexity problem. ref SDS 75 JX4M
460856 -           ..
460857 -          [On 060809 patient coordinator described advantages using
460858 -          technology and practices that organize documents to help
460859 -          doctors make sense of complex patient history in order to
460860 -          prepare 2nd opinions on diagnosis and treatment. ref SDS 76
460861 -          NN6F
460863 -           ..
460864 -          [On 060831 people use only 5% of Microsoft features because
460865 -          Help is hard to use; subjects are listed by Microsoft
460866 -          engineers in the Help index differently from the way
460867 -          customers look to find help using the program. ref SDS 77
460868 -          KA9H
460870 -           ..
460871 -          [On 070126 case study people giving up on context management,
460872 -          beyond reach. ref SDS 78 9Q7K
460874 -           ..
460875 -          [On 070511 context management constructs multiple
460876 -          accounts with organic structure in Subject Index, and
460877 -          assigns to Control Fields in SDS records for finding
460878 -          specific details, and assembling multiple views for trend
460879 -          analysis to support decision support and continual
460880 -          learning. ref SDS 79 0001
460882 -           ..
460883 -          [On 070729 Jack cites another book "Everything is
460884 -          Miscellaneous" by David Weinberger; seems like restatement of
460885 -          Pandora's Box; Jack does not say how Weinberger solves the
460886 -          problem of complexity and confusion presented by subject
460887 -          indexing, ref SDS 80 IB5G, per above. ref SDS 0 L58O
460889 -         ..
460890 -        On 960322 SDS helps assuage risk from complexity of subjects by
460891 -        focusing attention. ref SDS 9 7749
460893 -         ..
460894 -        Pandora's Box is reviewed in relation to the knowledge
460895 -        management dilemma on 991108. ref SDS 19 0795
460897 -         ..
460898 -        On 000120 Pandora's Box was cited as challenge to consider in
460899 -        attempting to enhance power to create knowledge. ref SDS 22
460900 -        2345
460902 -         ..
460903 -        Pandora's Box was used on 000208 to illustrate complexity of
460904 -        connections in human thought that "boggle" the conscious mind,
460905 -        if not managed properly. ref SDS 30 2940  Complexity of
460906 -        organizing information is another problem of scale, which Eric
460907 -        cited on 000125 for linking. ref SDS 23 3975
460909 -     ..
460910 -    Eric Armstrong wrote asking (which is omitted from the record)...
460911 -
460912 -        Which idea did Robert Rosen's papers examin...
460913 -
460914 -        •  category-theoretic models
460915 -        •  relational knowledge bases
460916 -        •  represenations of complex systems
460917 -        •  all of the above?
460919 -     ..
460920 -    Jack Park submitted ref DRT 5 0001 explaining Robert Rosen worked
460921 -    at Chicago in the 50's on the idea of a Relational Biology,
460922 -    contining work by Raschevsky who noted that analysing a living
460923 -    cell, did not yield knowledge on putting one together.  Reductionist
460924 -    thinking was not going to provide the answers we were looking for.
460925 -    ref DRT 5 2530
460927 -     ..
460928 -    Rosen developed mathematics of component relations, using the 4
460929 -    Aristotelian causalities and ties everything together with category
460930 -    theory.  The book, Life Itself (and a new one published just after
460931 -    his death, Essays on Life Itself) discusses and develops this
460932 -    mathematics.  At least, it develops it to the level of a
460933 -    theoretical understanding.  Jack understands that nobody has yet
460934 -    mapped his thinking to, say, the mathematics of a single-cell
460935 -    animal.  There's a helluva lot of thinking going on in that
460936 -    direction, however.  Raschevsky started with graph theory,
460937 -    graduated to organismic set theory, then passed away.  Rosen took
460938 -    that work to category theory. ref DRT 5 8178
460940 -     ..
460941 -    Jack's research shows that things really are related, and it is the
460942 -    mathematics of those relations that jumps to a high level of
460943 -    maturity.  Simple relational algebra seems a place to start, but
460944 -    discovering the topology of those relations is something else
460945 -    again. ref DRT 5 6156
460946 -
460947 -        This analysis supports comments by Morris on 970116 about the
460948 -        complexity of subject management. ref SDS 11 1732
460949 -
460950 -
460951 -
460952 -
460953 -
460954 -
460955 -
460956 -
460957 -
460958 -
460959 -
460960 -
460961 -
4610 -