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From: Champion, Mike [mailto:Mike.Champion@S...] >Ah, but who gets to be Gardener, and who makes the plan? The choice of choosing choices. >And what if an idiot steals the election for Gardener, poisons the garden >with his friends' petroleum products, and spends all his energy planning how >to defend against the woodchucks rather than watering and fertilizing? That is your fault. You chose badly. Either you chose a bad gardener or you chose a system that cannot resolve a near tie (lost in statistical noise) and therefore punts to another chooser (in the case alluded to, the supreme court which itself was culled for such choosing: again, depends on authority to choose the legitimate choices). >Many prefer confusion to incompetent leadership. Or many prefer to identify with what is most like their own world view and will actively eliminate other choices. > Natural Selection makes > for messy gardens, but few Gardeners are wise enough to know in advance what > will survive a drought or early frost. Study projects such as Amodeus "Interacting Cognitive Subsystems: A Framework for Considering the Relationships Between Performance and Knowledge Representations" Alison J. K. Green and look at the issues of representation as they affect expert or novice approaches to problem solving. You will discover that many gardeners can and do know in advance what they need to know. However, choosing a gardener is choosing the system that chooses. Note the problems of punting to procedural decision making and issues of oscillation given uncertainty. There is no such thing as *natural* selection in the creation of artificial systems. Someone chooses the choices in advance and then rallies their supporters. The entire web infrastructure is a political system and for that reason, the semantic web can follow the Forbin project outcomes fairly precisely. Deontic logic isn't precise and context is always local. The SW depends on elminating local choice of representational means. Ecological metaphors are just that. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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