Ok, let me put it this way. Knowledge is fractally clustered into many
perspectives. Each of these perspective have a _locally_ consistent structure.
But the range of the perspective is always limited and it is therefore
impossible to construct a perspective with a semantic structure that extends
infinitely. This means that different perspectives may not be bridged
semantically. The only way to bridge them is associatively via structural
similarity.
>Epidemics would probably affect the functioning of any system. Why would a
>semantic structure be more (or less) vulnerable?
It isn't. My point was that if our wish is for a semantic structure to emerge on
the web then we may wait hard and long for it. But often a locally semantic
network will do just fine and for many (most!?) practical purposes knowbots and
similar devices may be used unambiguously.
Onar.