RE: [xml-dev] Linking global context

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Looks like a good read.  The blurbs hype it as revolutionary, and it is not.

 

Any erudite Hindu can explain all of this to one.   But since the

dominant metaphor these days is the web, explaining things in

terms of webs and networks makes sense as a pop communique.

So do tantra and karma.   A lot of us have been using ecosystem

metaphors for some time, and that is a somewhat better metaphor in that

it takes up communities in a less flat metaphor:  hubs (attractors)

might not be organized as a set of connections, but in terms of

the sign systems (say message types) they share, so this

becomes the self-organizing principle and one has to think

about how and in what ways sign systems and power laws

are connected (it isn't hard).

 

Some questions:  how does any member unattached to a

network/community choose its community, and by what

means does it signal such intentions?  

 

What is the nature of habit, how are habits acquired,

and are we capable of transcending habit?  Is the trancendence

of habit the key to transcending the network itself?

 

Desire is the maker.  Desire is the destroyer.  How do we

become the masters of desire?   Networks are a very flat

way to look at a complex adaptive system.   Given an origin

event, how long does it take and at what frequency of

interaction for intelligence to emerge?   What events can

be posited that will amplify this emergence or curb it?

What events destroy intelligence (capable of manipulating

and influencing events) and how are they detected?

 

One can resort to pattern and link analysis, but they

are wholely unintuitive.  At the operational scales,

intuitive knowledge is vital for selecting actions.

 

len

From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@netfolder.com]

Hi

 

In the context of linking, does anybody has read "Linked - the New Science of Networks" by Alberto-Laszlo Barabasi?

 

I would be interested - in the perspective of linking - to listen to your thoughts about these concepts.