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Some notes on organizational stratum


Several disciplines are integrated to form stratification theory and a demand side philosophy that is based on organizational stratum. 

A principle result in computer science is that self organization in nature leads to generative stratum, and that certain first principles define an artificial generative stratum.  The natural and artificial manifestations may be compared, and from this comparison it is possible to make contributions to both science and computing technology.  One example of a computer architecture with organizational stratum is Cubicon.  The history and some public information about Cubicon may be found at www.coretak.net.  There are several other stratified computing architectures, several of which are not public.

My generalization of these architectures is to be made into a rather simple formalism, one that uses the Soviet era quasi axiomatic theory 

Chapter Six, Foundations for Knowledge Science

and some results from topic map representation of human knowledge, as well as elements of semiotics (theory of sign systems).  My generalization is being prepared for presentation at

Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

in Florida,  July 10 - 13th.   I authored a paper for a similar conference in 1997

Prueitt, P. (1997b). Grounding Applied Semiotics in Neuropsychology and Open Logic, in IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Oct. 1997.

which is in Chapter 4 in Foundations.

as well as others.  However, most of this work is not published.  The notes in this log is really designed to help me round out my approach and to be as clear as possible about all of the issues.


The political argument that an alterative paradigm is available but repressed

A political argument, to Al Gore and others, is to be made based on our synthesist of the science, as placed in the context of current crisis  of systems; education, financial, health, and geo-political.  My work, as is true of many but not all of the citations I make in the draft of my  book, is under published.  Two reasons exists, the nature of complexity in nature and the "social" repression of alternatives to the current strong form of scientific reductionism.  

A core concept underlying the work is a separation of locality and non-locality.  There are historic facts, related to science and philosophy, that lead themselves to ignoring non-locality.  I will not go into this history other than to assert that this history is real and relevant to the economic and philosophical repression of a number of works by scholars, including Peter Kugler and Robert Rosen. 

The point is that this separation is essential to technologies such as organic solar cells, power grid control, and in general the understanding of molecular process. 

It is to be described using a mix of ontological modeling and Hilbert mathematics.  

The physical  separation is best seen in quantum physics (Bell's inequality) but is also seen in all disciplines, for examples John Nash's work in economics (the movie The Beautiful Mind), and Gerald Edelman's work in "Neural Darwinism".   Karl Pribram (Brain and Perception, 1991) developed by a local theory and a nonlocal theory of neural processing.
  
Suppy and demand and non-localtiy

How is demand side computing theory and nonlocality related?  Why is this theory repressed, if our assertion is correct?

Supply side naturally comes from the organizational layers that a system sits inside. As a philosophical principle it seems reasonable, to some, that those who are wealthy should identify and control what is supplied to the economy.   However, without a demand side, the control is partial, semi-control, and is chaotic and perhaps dangerous (to social health).   This alterative viewpoint may be repressed based on the power of those who support the pure supply side argument. 

For the current (un-balanced supply side) economy this semi-control is exercised (poorly) by the wealthy entities; corporations and those who occupy positions of control over the economic system.  Demand arises from a local decision making process, which in our media and cultural reality is shaped far too much by the same group that controls supply.  A well defined and simple social theory unified this control - supply side trickle down economic theory, and deregulation.  

Deregulation by itself is not the problem, since a healthy and naturally occurring demand side control would create a balance.  The control of public media and credit by the same group that  semi-controls the supply side is where the imbalance occurs. 

This reality beings us back to the political and scientific arguments for a "clean slate Internet" enabling technology that would appear out of the blue, and not be under the control of Silicon Valley venture capital.