Dear Bruce,
On 9/15/06, Bruce LaDuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Knowledge - That which is retained in a storage mechanism at any level
>(individual, group, societal).
Is your definition of knowledge limited to what is provably true and
known facts or is the level of certainty/probability of the retained
storage excluded? This aspect seems abscent from your definition.
On 9/17/06, Bruce LaDuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stefan,
The element that is missing from these definitions is the question.
Knowledge equals logic equals meaning. All knowledge/logic/mmeaning is
organized in a triadic, three-dimensional structure that is open-ended and
juxtaposed against an antithetical field of 'anti-logic.' This is the logic
that has not been formed yet and it is realized by questions. Questions are
the perceived lack of knowledge structure.
Hmmm.... Is there a specific reason why you diverge from the classic
view of how well an assumption is supported by evidence? It is not
immediately apparent why one would need to complicate matters more
than having the following three clases:
a) Math - statements that are either true (1+1=2) or not (1+1=3)
depending on your axioms
b) Logic - If A=B and C=B then A=C
c) Emperical - assumptions about the real world and how well they are
supported by past experience
What is seen as 'levels of true' is really a complex mix of questions and
logic. Concepts that are 'partly true' are knowledge mixed with questions.
These two meet at the 'cutting edge,' which is the line between the known
and the unknown. Knowledge structure not connected to the social structure
is theory. For theory to become 'known' questions must be answered to
connect it to mainstream knowledge.
Except for a) and b) nothing can be known to be true (see infinite
regress). The closest something can come to being knowable is in the
form of probability networks and margins of error. Einstein's theories
are false but they are /less/ false then anything else currently
receiving wide support in the scientific community.
Science evolves through empirical logic and is divergent and is fueled by
discovery. Technology evolves through rational logic and is divergent and
is fueled by invention/creativity. Both discovery and invention/creativity
operate by a single, simple, knowledge creation process which is essentially
the conversion of questions to knowledge/logic/meaning/structure at the
cutting edge of knowledge.
Very nicely put.
Artificial intelligence then, is knowledge stored. Artificial knowledge
creation is the mechanized process of converting questions into knowledge,
which is singularity.
Agreed, once the speed of knowledge creation approaches infinity.
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