Sophia is "wisdom" but also "sophists" were those that in contrast to "philosophers" who loved wisdom, simply pretended to be able to possess it and teach it. Thus, super-sophisticity could be misinterpreted. You may want to look at "noesis", which is similar to "mental acts" or "dianoeisis". Supernoesis?
Although maybe super-sophistry is the right world :) For example, I disagree with removal of non-commercial licensing from Creative Commons. Essentially by "speeding" up the production of knowledge but not allowing a copy-left like mechanism that prevents commercial exploitation without recompensation, you essentially are providing an ever-larger set of data produced by individuals and public sector bodies (both under severe strain due to the crisis) for commercial companies to exploit without any re-compensation for the actual production of such data. So, I'm happy to share my photos with a non-commercial license. I don't want some random multi-national to use my photos in an advertising campaign without my permission. In Marxist terms, that's primitive accumulation - sort of similar to the looting of Africa and other countries during the colonial period, but this time done on the level of data. I think there's some thoroughly discredited neoliberal ideology at work in some of the "open data" rhetoric, but then most people involved in open data, while doing it for the right reasons, aren't actually thinking in terms of political economy and thus are quite naive. I think open data can change the world, but find the "removal of any barriers" deeply problematic and short-sighted. Instead, we should produce the kinds of incentive structures necessary to align with the ethics of a community, which I would prefer to be democracy and mass empowerment. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to create a neologism for the infinitely fast flow of knowledge > when there are no barriers and am looking for a (probably) Greek root. > > The metaphor is superconductivity and superfluidity. A superconducting > magnet can support trains, run for ever, etc. Any impedance destroys it. I > want to argue that only Open Knowledge (a la OKD) is fit for the modern age > - that licences, logins, etc completely destroy the flow of knowledge. > > So, analogous with superconductivity and superfluidity do we have a word > for knowledge? > > supersophicity? (sophos = wisdom) > supergnosis? supergnosicity? (but conflation with Christian theology) > > or ??? > > P. > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > >
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