I am a new member of the PCP and have just read some
of Onar Aam's work.
I like it !
I like to present my own work by building a "projection" from the
work of Onar which some of you may have read. If you have not, read
it first, his language is clearer than mine (but please come back :-)
I am referring to :
http://www.hsr.no/~onar/Ess/Perspectivism.html
Consider this:
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In Onar's essay on "Perspectivism", he describes some behavior of
"knowledge animals".
Knowledge animals use the human mind as a breeding ground.
My statement expressed in Onar's terminology is:
I think that the metaphor of "knowledge animals" has power in
regions (perspectives) far away from the regions of the human
mind and our society (without becoming ghost knowledge).
I think that we can "recognize" the activity of "knowledge
animals" in our body organs, in biological cells, in plain
chemistry, in the atomic and sub-atomic interactions and
much more.
Knowledge animals interact with their environment.
They are affected by the environment and the environment is
affected by their actions.
This interaction results in the fact that "old knowledge animals"
are expressed in a lot of things and do represent "the structure
of a lot of things".
Because it becomes increasingly difficult to change such old,
omnipresent knowledge, I like to call this effect "the induration
of information".
I THINK THAT even THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE SUCH INDURATED
KNOWLEDGE BEINGS.
A fundamental thing about "knowledge animals" is that they
express themselves in their environment.
The more POWER a knowledge animal has in a specific environment,
the more accurate the knowledge animal can express itself.
Remark that the knowledge of "how to express itself in new
environments" is part of the knowledge animal and is also
(partially) expressed in the environment.
As a result, the expression starts to express itself.
This recursion goes on forever...
For example: Human beings express the way they manage things
in the structure of their organizations, e.g. in a company.
Through its relations, a company exhibits the way it is
organized, and this knowledge is replicated to other
companies.
Another example: Human beings express the way they work in the
tools they make. As a next step, even the making of the
machines is automated, as a next step, the design of new
machines is automated (Computer Aided Design), and an
increasing amount of Artificial Intelligence is integrated
in the design and manufacturing process.
But:
If we human beings express our knowledge in a recursive way,
WHY WOULD WE BE THE FIRST STAGE IN A RECURSIVE CHAIN ?
and if we are not, how much can we see of the rest of the
fractal of which the human being is a part?
In the essay "Behavior of Information", which I wrote some years
ago, I attempt to investigate this question. I have made the text
available on WWW on URL:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hingh/claeys/
Currently the text is difficult to read and too book-like
for WWW, but I am working on improvement.
I hope that the interaction with YOU will improve my language and
the art of expressing myself.
To facilitate the reading of those which are familiar
with Onar's work, here are some translations of the
terminology:
Knowledge animal ===> Information Being.
Projection ===> Mapping.
Luc
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Luc Claeys claeys@innet.be
Antwerpen (Wilrijk) Belgium.
In search of new points of view
for better understanding of Nature.
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