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- The Matrix Philosophy
There are key elements of Philosophy, Theology, Teleology and Ontology present
throughout The Matrix Series. ...
- The Messiness of WikiDemocracy
This protected article by M.R.M. Parrott
first appeared on rimric folio, Spring
2004.
"Participating in a Wiki brings many
of the same feelings of freedom as having
one's own website or participating in a
discussion forum, but there are serious
pitfalls to consider, especially for a
larger, public Wiki."
In the early
years of the century, a new form of making a
website through
collaboration has come into its own. "Wiki wiki" (Hawaiian for
"quick", "WikiWiki" in CamelCase) used as
inspiration for what we could call "wiki
websites", are sites using one or several
display technologies allowing anyone to edit
their webpages. Currently, the most famous of
such websites is Pseudopedia, an
online encyclopedia-like information site
purporting to provide the canon of human
knowledge, but it has generated large
problems too, with verifiability, bias, and
social groupthink. Fortunately, there are
many other Wikis, however, such as MeatBall, CommunityWiki, C2, Metaweb, the Wikia multi-wiki "farm",
and many others like GetWiki,
an open policy humanities and technology site
and software. Wikis are springing up on
corporate intranets, too, where employees can
collaborate with each other in a way which
saves their correspondence for others to
read, and frees them from the spam and virus
difficulties of email.
What all of the
Wikis have in common is a cheerful embrace of
democratic values, where information and
communication are to no longer be bound by
the barriers typical of the past. In my own
writingsSeeweblink
for more., I have praised the edifying
power of hypertext, the breaking
down of old walls barring expression, and now
we can add WikiDemocracy to the mix of
new technological approaches allowing
departure from old hierarchies - at least in
ideal form. ...
- Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
The following essay is intended to provide
readers with background on the pragmatic
theory of inquiry and its relationship to the
pragmatic theory of signs.
Aspects of
Inquiry:
"Inquiry" is a word in common
use for a process that resolves doubt and
creates knowledge. ...
- Logic of Information (Jon Awbrey)
Peirce's concept of
information:
I've been meaning to get
back to Peirce's
theory of information, because I believe that
it contains a yet-to-be-tapped potential for
many current issues, though it would take
just a little bit of drilling to exploit its
resources to the fullest that we can.
In
my own imagination, I tend to organize
Peirce's ideas about information, along with
its relationship to comprehension and
extension, in what certain accidents of
personal history lead me to think of as the
light-cone picture — but it's really
just the two branches of a geometric cone, or
the pencil that is generated by a point in a
lattice or partial order, with no real
connection to physics intended, at least, not
so directly as the picture at first
suggests:
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- Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems
: Note. ...
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