It has been some time since my last post and not much has changed with semantic technology except that business slowed for many. Tom Adi and I have been busy with pending publications, one of which was announced here. That article has all the details of the algorithms and information technology that were derived from [...]
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Identifying the Rudiments of Thot
Posted in Influence, Perception, abstraction, tagged Cognition, Dreams, Imagination, Sentiment on Monday, February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have heard it said that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. The original line comes from Shakespeare’s famous play about Romeo and Juliet:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
According to scholars: Juliet, prevented from marrying Romeo by the feud between [...]
Semantic Maps, Meaning, and other Nebulous Notions
Posted in Influence, Intelligence, Perception, Semantic Models, abstraction, tagged emotional control, physiological control, recognition, semantic map, thinking on Friday, September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A semantic map is a pattern imposed on reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediating perception, or guiding response. That is the conception of a semantic map I want the reader to have in mind as we continue.
The Semantics of Interpersonal Relations (Part 2)
Posted in Influence, Perception, Semantic Models, abstraction, tagged interpersonal elements and relations, search engines, semantic theory, systems on Saturday, January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In part 1, I offered some context and my definition of ’semantics’ as being the system of relationships that are important or significant to people and which are symptomatic of human experience. In this part, I will flush out what this means.
Though most people may be familiar with that famous quote: I think, therefore [...]
Social Media: It’s what’s wrong with semantic search.
Posted in Influence, Intelligence, Perception, Semantic Search, Semantic Web, tagged emotions, Intelligence, interpersonal relations, literature, semantics, software on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If “literature” is “the imaginative and creative writing of a language, period or culture” the blogs, new media and web pages of (so-called) social media qualifies as the new literature. One could say that online news, health and finance sites, the “e-zines” and the several hundred million web logs or blogs comprise a growing [...]
The Semantics of Recognizing the Error of Our Ways.
Posted in Influence, Perception, Semantic Models, Semantic Search, abstraction, intelligent search on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How important do you think that it is to recognize when you are about to make an error? If you rate it as pretty important to you, then you will agree that that sort of recognition would be something very meaningful. The very act of distinguishing the error is of perceptual significance [...]
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