Fw: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

[Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>]

 

I'll tell you what's even spookier...

 

I've spent many of my years in college fascinated by all the recent progress in cognitive models of the brain.  "Wow, we are learning a lot about how the mind works!  This is going to be a new world order, with all these critical discoveries now being made.  Society will change, now that we are starting to discover _how_ we really think!!!"

 

However, a couple of years ago, I started studying meditation, and realized the field of mind and matter has _already_ been understood, and documented, at a far deeper level of intuition, sophistication, and consistency than present day cognitive psychology...this, over 2500 years ago!     http://www.buddhanet.net/abhidh05.htm

 

My point is, thorough knowledge and all the answers already exists around us or within us...everything we all do in life is basically trying to sift and sort preexisting, primordial knowledge in different ways, hoping to 'click' with current structures in such a way to best be known to society, and to benefit society.  Whether it will be us who gets the right combo, or another effort down the line, we don't know...but trying out combinations, as we're doing, will ultimately benefit society in the end.

 

Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga

----- Original Message -----

From: Kurt Cagle

To: Bullard, Claude L (Len) ; humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:51 PM

Subject: Re: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

Whoa, that's spooky. It's almost as if the whole of XML development and KM has been anticipated in that little blurb.

----- Original Message -----

From: Bullard, Claude L (Len)

To: OASIS Comment

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:33 PM

Subject: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

I was just looking at a folder of papers on my desk that included:

 

"New Elements of a Strategy for Knowlege Sharing and Reuse

 

o  Standardize a canonical form (knowledge interchange format)

o  Define common ontologies (vocabularies of representational

terms with agreed-upon definitions in human and machine

readable forms)

o  Build libraries of ontologies and task-specific reasoning tools

o  Separate knowledge from programs by using a declarative

knowledge representation language

o  Identify general classes and relations underlying application

specific facets

o  Generalize reasoning and problem solving methods"

 

Source?  Semantic web?  Nope.  Berners-Lee?  Nope.

 

The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort.  Thomas Gruber.

October 1991.   The membership list is a whos who of

AI today.

 

Some things take a long time to mature and when they

do, often other people's names are associated with

the success, but not the long long haul to get the

concepts ready for that success.

 

len