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DIARY: June 24, 2000 06:23 AM Saturday; Rod Welch

Letter from Mary Keeler; sent response requesting comment on KM.

1...Summary/Objective


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SUBJECTS
Peirce, Charles Knowledge Experience Time Accuracy
OHS/DKR Meeting at SRI 000518
Alphabet as Knowledge Technology
Alphabet Competence Organize Money Control Organic Structure SDS
Alphabet Technology Letter Requests Review of SDS POIMS Com Metrics

1207 -    ..
1208 - Summary/Objective
1209 -
120901 - Follow up ref SDS 46 9797, ref SDS 43 8439.
120902 -
120903 - Received a letter today from Mary Keeler responding to may letter,
120904 - ref DIP 3 0001, thanking Mary for the presentation on Charles Peirce's
120905 - work, for the DKR project team at SRI on 000518. ref SDS 43 8439
120906 -
120907 - Mary transmits a long paper on philosophy, ref DIT 1 0002, that does
120908 - not address the objective of defining knowledge in a way that can move
120909 - civilization forward.
120910 -
120911 - She is very involved caring for her mother who is ill, ref DIT 1 0005,
120912 - and so offers this submission sent earlier to Jack Park, as an interim
120913 - comment on my request for discussion on causation.
120914 -
120915 - Mary plans to comment on the issues in my letter when time permits.
120916 - ..
120917 - Yesterday, letter from Jack Park explaining an architecture for
120918 - DKR omits explanation of "knowledge" and proposes making the core of
120919 - KM a subject management system. ref SDS 49 0001  Since this design at
120920 - most is only half of the solution, ref SDS 49 4048, need to develop
120921 - support for a broader based architecture, yet one that relies on a
120922 - simple concept of an "intelligence" process defined in POIMS.
120923 - ref OF 1 6649
120924 - ..
120925 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 explaining formal philosophical methods
120926 - are too cumberson for designing tools to help a lot of people augment
120927 - their intelligence. ref DIT 1 1890  Note Welch methods are not going
120928 - to be adopted by a lot of people soon, ref DIT 1 6018, and give the
120929 - example of the record of the meeting at SRI that Mary attended on
120930 - 000518. ref SDS 43 8439
120931 -
120932 -      [On 000713 sent similar letter to professor Joseph Ransdell at
120933 -      Texas Tech University, requesting comments on correlation of SDS
120934 -      to semiotics. ref SDS 51 4078
120935 -
120936 -      [On 000716 Professor Joeseph Ransdell commends Mary's work on
120937 -      Peirce. ref SDS 52 1075
120938 -
120939 -      [On 000718 received letter from Mary. ref SDS 53 0001
120940 -
120941 -      [On 000802 incorporated into vision for business plan.
120942 -      ref SDS 54 2245
120943 - ..
120944 - Explain aim of DKR effort is, or should be, to help a lot of
120945 - people think better for a larger share of the day by using new
120946 - technology, ref DIT 1 5544, per telecon with Doug Engelbart on 000327.
120947 - ref SDS 14 9975
120948 -
120949 -      [On 010811 OHS/DKR team under Doug's Bootstrap group led by Henry
120950 -      van Eykan, wants to improve learning for solving big problems.
120951 -      ref SDS 56 L17H
120952 -
120953 - Request comment on idea that SDS has potential, like the alphabet, to
120954 - help a lot of people reason better by managing sequence in order to
120955 - understand complexity. ref DIT 1 9434
120956 -
120957 - Link to explanation of alphabetic mind in the record on 991108 to
120958 - underscore the power of the technology. ref SDS 7 5628
120959 -
120960 -     [On 000627 discussed this with Jack Park. ref SDS 50 6560
120961 -
120962 -     [On 010223 Jack Park submits paper on using technology to advance
120963 -     technology and does not mention POIMS, SDS, Com Metrics, Knowledge
120964 -     Space. ref SDS 55 JQ4K
120965 - ..
120966 - Point out that mental mistakes caused by summarizing complexity
120967 - result from a feature not a bug, ref DIT 1 2145, per the record on
120968 - Steven Pinker on 990329. ref SDS 4 3723
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