Glen - Another of my usual postscripts... afterthoughts... from my last missive:
The Faceted Ontology work I describe is not unlike my conception of the Duetsch Multiverse, but only a subset or a shadow of it. Rather than the superposition of many states of a finite but huge multiverse, it is the superposition of many states of knowledge of a finite and huge (but not compared to said multiverse) set of perspectives of those who contributed said knowledge. It is, in fact, a lot like a very low fidelity hologram reconstructed in the manner of a tomograph... many 2D slices of a 3D thing composed and interpolated to imply a 3D thing. Since our work includes uncertainty measures (both in the confidence and the veracity of the original source), it at least suggests adjacent possibles ("it was kinda red" said the semi-reliable source)...
'nuff for now, - Steve ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
