RE: Applications: Intelligence systems (was Re: A new intelligenc eparadigm)

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

And of course, since Prueitt is also reasoning analogically 
(ecological information systems are all 
metaphorical) one might want to compare his statement 

"an emergent electromagnetic field is formed by assembling a subset of the
basic 
elemental processes according to situational influences at that loci"

with the XSLT transformation processes.  It is likely that 
the precise analogical models are not as important or 
revealing as the concept of transformation itself, a concept 
for which XML plus Schema and assertion tools can 
work with well.  Consider that selecting the correct 
transformation can be rule-driven, these are controls, 
and controls are emergent (using processes to create a 
choice of choices).  

Don't think a "reeeeal" long time about that. ;-)  Many 
of our early tools will likely only work at gross levels 
of communication and require substantial localization for 
precision.  That said, given a good framework and the time, 
that can happen naturally.

Len 
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