ONT Analytic Differential Ontology (ADO) q.v.
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Murray Altheim wrote:
>
> [A thousand pardons. I didn't realize that Netscape had included
> the original web page on the bottom of my previous message, which
> may have mucked things up quite a bit. gah!]
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> I'm just reading through the papers available online from:
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> Hosted by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
> A workshop: "New Ontologies: Transdisciplinary Objects"
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> http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/STIM/ontologies.html
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> March 29th, 30th, 2002.
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> "The ontologies of the Scientific Revolution displayed the world as
> dead, passive, law-governed and, in principle at least, predictable.
> Over the past fifty years or so, in fields as diverse as thermodynamics,
> cybernetics, evolutionary biology, chaos and complexity theory, cellular
> automata studies, fractal geometry, artificial intelligence and artificial
> life, new ontologies have been constructed which seek to describe the processes
> of emergence and self-organisation in complex systems. In the social sciences
> and humanities these have inspired a different, new and lively ontological vision.
> This workshop brings together scholars interested in where such developments
> might lead with the aim to promote and enrich transdisciplinary interactions."
>
> Over the years I've done some readings in chaos and complexity theory,
> systems theory, and have a sideline familiarity and interest since
> high school in the developments in "modern" physics. In line with
> my last note, this is kinda where I'm headed with this ...
>
> Does anyone know of any of these researchers, or have been following the
> development of alternative ontological approaches, as influenced by the
> fields listed above? I'm particularly interested in issues surrounding
> merges between locally-created and potentially-conflicting ontologies,
> and in how chaos or complexity theory might influence the development
> of merge approaches. [I'd be happy to take suggestions offline]
>
> Murray
>
> PS. I think I got that ASCII artist out of my system for now at least.
murray,
i am sending your "busted lincoln" to the asciimolean museum.
a bit of auto-bio-graphy, just to let you know where i am in my life:
53 yr old grad student, married 32 yrs to susan awbrey, no kids.
m.a. math (mich state 1980), m.a. quantitaive psych (mich state 1989),
some years at various other schools, ann arbor, uiuc. prof experience
mostly as comp/dat/stats consultant, mostly in health sci ed & research.
i have returned to work on a phd in systems engineering at oakland univ
in rochester, mich, really as a way of synthesizing all the pet projects
in ai, math, psy, phil that i did not get to finish the first ten times
around. intro to dissertation:
http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/inquiry.htm
other papers:
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/issue/abstract/ab017772.html
so i've spent the last do-zen years or so working on "inquiry driven systems",
with the aim of looking at systems that are intelligent enough to do inquiry,
and to see them as genuine dynamical systems, albeit qualitatively described.
faust order of buzziness was to develop mathematical methods and tools to fit,
to wit, "differential logic" = "differential theory of qualitative equations".
this means extending logic (zeroth order logic for a start) much in the way
that differential/integral calculus extends analytic geometry. in logic
one is always maxim-ally greedy, so nothing less than all functions,
"not of necessity" ("non") linear will do from the up and get-go.
"et sic deinceps ... this made him in love with [qual diff] geometry".
jon awbrey
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