Re: ONT Re: Inquiry Driven Systems
From: "Jon Awbrey" <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
> to turn the impressed image into an imaginary action
> on my own behalf, and thenceforward, if i can find the means whereby,
> into a schedule for its implementation.
Interesting .. this smacks of something that I have been working on. A
signing frequently has no embedded intention. For example: if chief Seattle
points to the distant mountain in his domain and says "Rainier" then a
signing may have taken place. Yet there is no embedded intention in this
signing except of course to establish the sign relation itself. But there
are signings which have embedded intention. For example if I advertise in
the local newspaper the fact that I have a Ford-Station-Wagon for sale. In
such cases we intend that the sign itself interact somehow in its
environment to produce some desired objective. There are many examples of
intentional signs in biology: for example hunger, fear, etc ... these
signings having taken place during the evolutionary process.
Progress so far:
1) There must be some mechanism (algorithm) existing in the environment for
intentional signs to function.
2) We should be able to identify some corresponding properties of the signs
of the intended objective. In the example of the Ford-Station-Wagon the
corresponding properties are a "wanted to sell" and a "wanted to buy" which
are properties of any car which would catalyze the intended transaction.
The question is: What is the most general algorithm to implement
intentional signs in some environment ?
a very rough working mentograph:
http://robustai.net/mentography/semicule_algorithm.gif
this is a continuation on the idea of "StickyCyberMolecules"
http://robustai.net/MyNetwork/StickeyCyberMolecules.html
Seth Russell