Re: [topicmaps-comment] Genetic PSIs [Re: Topic Mapdomain,paradigmatic PSIs ...]

[leo <leo@mgn.ru>]

Bernard,

Following your writing in the message:
"What is the solution proposed by life? Duplicate, replicate, distribute all
over the
place. The essential genetic information is everywhere. This solution has
proven
scalability and efficiency for over 3 billion years."
Suppose there is a need to turn minds back to the Peirce's semiotics and to
modern activities around it.
As I wrote in the http://www.mgn.ru/~ototsky/it/21abreast.htm
" The role of biosemiotic ideas in IT would increase. Indeed  such "objects"
as  musical scores, blueprints, computer programs or DNA molecules from the
biosemiotics point of view have an information "micro-level" nature and the
biosemiotics distinguishes it from "macro-level" of "structure characters" .
It differs an "algorithm of activity" from "activity" and "results of
activity". There are principle different types of activities to create the
"micro-level" objects, to copy them, to use them for "constructing" a
"macro-level" object etc.
(http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/biosem/txt/biosem.html) . Other very
important concepts of  "semantic closure" and  "metasystem transition"
 http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/biosem/geninfo.html ) will be taken into
account as well."

Regards,
Leonid
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Leonid Ototsky - leo@mgn.ru
www.mgn.ru/~ototsky/ototskyhome.html
Chief Specialist of the Computer Center,
Magnitogorsk Iron&Steel Works ( MMK- www.mmk.ru ),
Russia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
To: "topicmaps-comment" <topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>;
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Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 7:58 PM
Subject: [topicmaps-comment] Genetic PSIs [Re: Topic Map domain,paradigmatic
PSIs ...]


> The idea of the day, for what it's worth :)
>
> "Who should publish our core PSIs?" "Under what domain?" etc ...
>
> This has led and will lead to endless debate and conflicts until we'll get
to understand
> and apply a very simple principle that has allowed complex information to
maintain itself
> on Earth against - so far - all possible disasters. Think about genetic
information.
>
> 1. It has to stay stable over the time.
> 2. But its supports are very fragile and bound to short-term destruction.
>
> Pretty much like PSIs information, right? I want my subject to stay
identified in the
> future - say a hundred years from now, not to hope for billions - but can
figure the risk
> that the current URI will be dead at some point in the near future is
quite high, whatever
> the trust I put on it right now. In fact, I've better assume that it will
be dead. Given
> the elusivity of technology, many Cretaceous-Trias crises are likely to
occur during the
> next century. But remember - good PSIs should never die!
>
> What is the solution proposed by life? Duplicate, replicate, distribute
all over the
> place. The essential genetic information is everywhere. This solution has
proven
> scalability and efficiency for over 3 billion years.
>
> So, if we figure PSIs like genetic material, supporting the identity of
subjects and able
> to deliver it to the external word, we should think about it, and push the
problem from:
>
> "What preferential URI should this PSI live under?"
> to
> "How should we distribute this PSI over so many equivalent URIs that the
life or death of
> any of them is without importance"
>
> Think about a subject as a species (leading to a very important notion
that subjects also
> evolve and branch) and PSIs as instances of that species. When identifying
a subject, I
> want to identify a species, and any instance should do the job, but the
more of them
> available, the best.
>
> This leads to a viewpoint quite different of what has been expressed in
recent messages -
> including by me. Under what domain "paradigmatic" or "core" PSIs should be
published I
> really don't care after all. I wish there were thousands of them,
published in every
> corner of the web under so many authorities, and each one stating to be
equivalent to a
> dozen of random others. And every user should be allowed to duplicate it
whenever
> possible.
>
> That's why we should fight back on the notion of how to declare and manage
equivalent
> PSIs, that has been somehow pushed out of the debate lately.
>
> Bernard
>
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