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stratum
(still under edit, Dec 5th)
Neural transmitters
regulate neuronal functions. The generation of neural
transmitters arises from cascades of molecular events in a way that may
be compared with cell signal pathway propagation *<*>.
Stratum generated natural language expression is theorized to arise in
this same way. The stratum is a layer of physical organization
such as the atomic stratum, from which all chemical compounds are
generated. A second example of a stratum is the set of phonemic atoms
from which an individual human generates all speach.
The theory of language is a very difficult field
where controversy always plays a controlling part of
scholarship. The concept of a generating stratum is even more
controversial, and yet comes into clear relief when the concept is
envisioned as a part of a global computer architecture. *<*>
Since such an architecture does not have an implementation as yet, we
have to rely on metaphor and theoretical discussions.
The absence of an examplar stratum generated communication system is
only part of our current reality. The concept of a new Internet
software infrastructure is not so easy to understand, as we see from
the processes attempting to establish a semantic web, and a "clean
slate" Internet. Our work suggests that ownership over basic fomalism
is a concern that can be resolved (see below).
One thing is clear, and that a cultural transformation may be under
way. The theoritical possibilities we discuss in these notes
(www.secondschool.net) are placed into the context of this cultural
transformation.
The demand side and education
infrastructure
In the previous notes, see index *,
we have developed an exposition of issues related to demand side
theory, primarily as applied to the American crisis in education.
Demand side theory is contrasted with a mainstream educational theory
based on the works of John Dewey, and as influenced by the modern
supply side markets and the philosophical grounding of so called supply
side economic theory. A specific global computer architecture is
thought to be
necessary and sufficient for the development of demand side market
economies, a concept that is now being developed as a means to balance
world wide commodity usage. These market economies depend on the
individual having natural language like control over interactions
within transactions spaces, many of which are manifest as communicative
acts. Thus the global architecture must have a property that
decentralizes control over creativity and productivity.
The design of computer processes is deemed the central challenge
targeted by this new computer architecture. The Resilience
Project *<*>
proposes a federal investment process in which software design is freed
of underlying control over what are essentially mathematical formalism.
This freeing of property would be done through the specification of
computing theory, as a
subset of mathematics. In out proposal, the specification is to
be done using an
iconic based interface language, one generated by a sub-stratum
architecture.
Software that is now overly complicated, expensive
and constantly changing may be replaced with simple, stable and free
computing processes. These processes will be what is studied in
high school and college, and will form the foundation to a new
communication and production infrastructure.
One consequence is that a new publicly owned infrastructure will
empower educational processes defined as a balance between supply and
demand. This federal investment would be focused at transforming
our educational institutions, and in encouraging scholarship in fields
related to
decentralization technology and a new green manufacturing sector.
This brings us back to the topic of computer
generated stratum. The
core innovation required by the Resilience Project is computer
generated stratum language, as
this is the medium within which the specification of standard computer
transactions are to be
made.
The use of natural language as a model
for computing control
This technology is
easy to understand if one understands how some scholars *<*>
believe a person speaking
comes to speak what is spoken. Many religious persons believe that in
prayer one's
thoughts are structured in a particular fashion, as if the
communication were with a Divine sense. Such sense of
communication is reported as experienced in all religious faiths.
The religious sense is also reported in creative acts such as in the
production of art, in dance and similar acts.
In natural language we have a sub-stratum in
at least two senses. One is seen in the so called double
articulation of phonetics combinations in the production of
speech. *<*>
The other sense is in a morphogenetic process in which thought itself
is formulated. Might it be possible to extend from a particular
theory of language *<*>
to a general theory of language? Such
extension would involve known science about memory mechanisms and the
mechanisms involving private and social intentions. This is
what has been achieved by innovations proposed to be supported as part
of the Resilience Project.
Language may not be the only place where generative stratum have come
to exist. One may look at the fashion in which chemical reactions are
occurring, and metabolic processes transform and undergo
transformations. The fashion in which reactions and processors
are occurring might be considered to be a type of "computing" which
forms the basis for human thought. In a less mystical sense, the
science suggests that
organizational sub-strata are involved in the production of concepts as
expressed in natural language. This sense is part of the human
experience.
In fact the "set" of phonetic
atoms that one person uses is not the same as the set of phonetic atoms
that some other person uses. Each of us uses a different
organizational strata in order to produce the speak sounds used in
communication. All of us; however, do speak using a substrate
determined by a complex set of cascade processes.
Natural language, whatever its origin and
support, functions very well. Scholars are
inclined to see natural language as if generated by mechanism both
internal and external to one human. Of course, human language
depends on the existence of a social structure. The mechanisms
related to memory, perception and anticipation by one human individual
are also involved. Computer generated stratum is seen as a means
to extend and enhance these mechanisms.
On coherence and multi-coherence *<*>