Thursday, September 09, 2004
Hi Paul,
got your note.
My belief for a while has been that complex systems, and
indeed all systems, are incidental byproducts of complex processes.
Complex processes can in turn be analyzed into rules.
Thousands or even millions of rules might govern a
particular process.
It is the differences in the form of the rules (i.e.,
collectively, their deep structure) that distinguishes a (say) biological
process or system from a legal process or system or a gaming process or system.
Rules are not ultimately the "atoms" of any
system, as they can themselves be analyzed into component parts; but that gets
into my theory of Ultra-Structure, a different area that eventually leads to
notational engineering.
Jeff
Jeff,
We could
use some URL here to one or two of your presentations about your theory of Ultra-Structure
and the work that you have done on notational engineering while you were at
George Washington University (1997- 1999 ? ).
I remember the conference you held on notational engineering. Do you have links to each of the presenters
at that conference?
I have made some modifications to
http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/104.htm
in particular to the 3.0 section and
in doing this I am trying to bring the work by Battelle.
Battelle’s (1996) paper is on "Function, Anticipation
and Representation"
http://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/funcanticiprep.html
Battelle
is working on the issue of how rules form.
The ReadWare Provenance software
has one notational system that captures the consequences of there being rules
that form in the production of natural language. The notational system is used to compute concept identification,
manifestation and designate order of occurrence in a social discourse.
The
Conjecture on Stratification addresses the nature of emergent function, and
grounds a methodology that seeks to discover the invariances in substructure,
in the substructural ontology, as well as the ultrastructure - which we define
to the be set of environmental affordances for the category of system under
study.
So the
method for event identification, manifestation and designate order of occurrence
can be applied to any complex natural phenomenon.