[FRIAM] the Snarking of the Bandersnatch

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Oh. Gosh! Will somebody please explain the joke to me. 

 

I get some of the joke.  I mean the whole joke. 

 

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Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:08 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] the Snarking of the Bandersnatch

 

Glen -

You have taken good humored sarcasm (Snark*) to "the next level" (another modern idiom I am just coming to recognize) here.  It feels like you've captured FriAM-at-large pretty well here... or at least the arc of our discussions-of-late.   Not only the discussions, but to some extent the "nut" of some of them. 

Your spoof of an idea to ontologize the fruits of our discussions and the metaphorize them across domain-specific ontologies comes way too close to at least one holy grail of a project or two I've worked on (thus my references to a "Faceted Ontology".  I'm not saying your snark is empty, nor that the holy grail I refer to was entirely unachievable, mostly just appreciating how well you nailed it here, and perhaps (en caricature?) captured some of what Nick has been wishing and hoping for... 

Carry On, 

 - Steve

Ha! And a boon would be we can transform it arbitrarily onto any other domain-specific ontology. So, whatever is written about, say, evolutionary biology could be mapped ... [cough] metaphored ... into a paper about, say, holography! If we can design a GAN to well-fit the maps, then whatever "theory" we end up with will provide us with the explanation of consciousness and solve the hard problem! 

Man this technology thing is cool. Whatever was I thinking. >8^D

 

On 6/4/20 4:19 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

I think there should be a XML-based ontology format to encode our important conversations as a formal system.   And not mere CSS3, there should be a whole XSL pipeline to generate Nick’s book.  Everyone follow the rules or your e-mails will not validate and will be rejected by the mail server!

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