General Theory of Living Systems
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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, he said. "Our minds are constructed with an unlimited quality for 'chunking' primordial concepts, which then become larger concepts."
Hofstadter used as an example the word "hub," as in "Denver is the hub for United Airlines," and displayed a hand-drawn chart mapping words representing some of the linked concepts that are "chunked" together to make up the commonly used term. His examples ranged from basics like "wheel" and "node" to higher-order concepts like "spoke" and "network." Higher-order concepts are glommed together from lower-order ones, he said.
There's no fundamental difference in thinking with basic concepts and very large concepts because we don't "see" inside them, he said. "We build concepts by putting several concepts together and putting a membrane around them, and kind of miraculously these [interior] concepts disappear."
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 |
References
- ↑ Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought ISBN 978-0465024759
