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Self-modifying code is notoriously unreliable. The system isn't completely insular. There is no such thing as a completely open or completely closed system (no, not even black holes). Energy leaks. An evolving ontology is a lattice of word senses that can modify any property of the ontology. This does not mean modifying the value of a property, but adding and removing properties. For any property added or removed, a new ontology or sense is created and there can be infinitely many of these. Because an infinite number may be countable but is for practical purposes, not addressable, evolving systems exhibit a property of locality. Measures that determine the membership or values of properties are local to that system. Such definitions require selectors or intelligent observers, and as a result, are not closed. They are interactive. Otherwise, the devolve to entropy. Controls are emergent. At the end of your thought experiments, you will take data-driven GUIs much more seriously as well as their effect on the intelligent selector (the observer, aka, the human or other sensing device). len -----Original Message----- From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...] How can we create an ontology that evolves?
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