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Revision as of 19:03, 18 June 2018
Contents
Full Title or Meme
In order to understand or design any successful, continuing digital ecosystem, there must first be a general theory of living systems that we can use a template to build such a theory.
Context
Bayesian Identity Proofing provides the means for a collection of authentication and verification steps to be validated.
Douglas Hofstadter has been making the case for chunking and the use of fluid analogies in our own thought as a model for how computer networks should work.[1] Analogies—which we make constantly, relentlessly and mostly unconsciously—are what allow categorization to happen. "Our minds are constructed with an unlimited quality for 'chunking' primordial concepts, which then become larger concepts." As an example the word "hub," as in "Denver is the hub for United Airlines," brings to mind a large linked networks of concepts that are "chunked" together to make up the commonly used term. Other examples range from basics like "wheel" and "node" to higher-order concepts like "spoke" and "network." Higher-order concepts are assembled from lower-order concepts. He believes there no fundamental difference in thinking with basic concepts and very large concepts because we don't "see" inside them. We build concepts by putting several concepts together and putting a membrane around them and giving that a name. Kind of miraculously these [interior] concepts disappear into the named high-order concept.
Problems
Solutions
Taxonomy of Levels of connected Systems
Level | Name | Typical use | User Experience |
1 | Chip | Management of Computer | Only by Administrators |
2 | Board Computer | Internet of Things | Room temperature or video surveillance |
3 | Single Processor Computer | Accessing Web Sites | Simple Queries of web |
4 | Multiple Processor Computer | Local processing & virtualization | Mobile or Desktop device that maintains user info |
5 | Data Center | Collection of computers in a single location | Only by Administrators |
6 | Cloud (single owner) | Social Network | Interaction of user searches and tracking |
7 | Internetwork of Clouds | Maintenance of Names | User cannot access desired resourced for security reasons |
Grier's 19 "proceses" that work at all levels
The colored boxes highlight the ones that deal with information, which is the primary focus of this presentation.
Level | Name | Typical use | User Experience |
1 | ingestor | Management of Computer | Only by Administrators |
2 | distributor | Internet of Things | Room temperature or video surveillance |
3 | converter | Accessing Web Sites | Simple Queries of web |
4 | Multiple Processor Computer | Local processing & virtualization | Mobile or Desktop device that maintains user info |
5 | Data Center | Collection of computers in a single location | Only by Administrators |
6 | Cloud (single owner) | Social Network | Interaction of user searches and tracking |
7 | Internetwork of Clouds | Maintenance of Names | User cannot access desired resourced for security reasons |
8 | Chip | Management of Computer | Only by Administrators |
9 | Board Computer | Internet of Things | Room temperature or video surveillance |
10 | Single Processor Computer | Accessing Web Sites | Simple Queries of web |
11 | Multiple Processor Computer | Local processing & virtualization | Mobile or Desktop device that maintains user info |
12 | Data Center | Collection of computers in a single location | Only by Administrators |
13 | Cloud (single owner) | Social Network | Interaction of user searches and tracking |
14 | Internetwork of Clouds | Maintenance of Names | User cannot access desired resourced for security reasons |
15 | Chip | Management of Computer | Only by Administrators |
16 | Board Computer | Internet of Things | Room temperature or video surveillance |
17 | Single Processor Computer | Accessing Web Sites | Simple Queries of web |
18 | Multiple Processor Computer | Local processing & virtualization | Mobile or Desktop device that maintains user info |
19 | Data Center | Collection of computers in a single location | Only by Administrators |
20 | Cloud (single owner) | Social Network | Interaction of user searches and tracking |
7 | Internetwork of Clouds | Maintenance of Names | User cannot access desired resourced for security reasons |
ingestor, distributor, converter, producer, storage, extruder, motor, supporter
The processors of information are:
input transducer, internal transducer, channel and net, timer (added later), decoder, associator, memory, decider, encoder, output transducer.
References
- ↑ Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought ISBN 978-0465024759