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inFORMation - what a beautiful word. containing FORM. inform me and you (I, we or it) will change my form. therefore: I am what I am, because I know what I know. die fantasie als dichter ist der schöpfer dieser welt

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personal profit, which same time is a social/global one. alternative ways of doing business. unorthodox business-ideas. maybe i tend to use 'business' as a metaphor for living/being.

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• A comment on Talk: Hector Ruiz on connecting the world

  May 2 2008: the internet is no app and therefore cant be a killer-app. its a faszilitation that can be seen as an (infrastructural) environment. just as *land* is anything else but an app ... this gentlemen should possibly maybe better focus on things he understands. excuse my uncharmingly clear straightness which is ment to outline exactly what i receive-process-conclude from this lecture: incompetency.
  and: please forgive me when i correct the given facts about mozart. i think mozart was (very) far away from being the most romantic composer. he was maybe one of the most horny composers. actually i would humbly recommend not to use *romantic* as a metaphor for *horny* !

• A comment on Talk: Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

  Apr 24 2008: if science was able to switch off/on left and rigth hemishere under controlled circumstances just as we wish - for lets say 5min or one hour: everyone of us could experience life with each half of his brain. this would be marvellous! if it was a safe procedure, I'd be the first to agree/wish doing it!

• A comment on Talk: Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen

  Apr 22 2008: you gave me tears of joy ! thank you evelyn !!

• A comment on Talk: Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing

  Apr 21 2008: alex & all: a few times when jeff used the term 'predict' or 'prediction' I believe that it would have been more adaequate/accurate to have used 'project/projection'.
  see - if i was asked: whats 5+5 and I say 10, I could not possibly see anything like a prediction in my answer. i might just have 'projected correctly' (in accordance to common sense/expectation).
  intelligence definition (spontanously crossing my mind): 'projective processing'
  (with a big question mark!)
  
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  maybe of interest: my first impulse, when i visited this website http://www.semanticsystem.com was: hoax..bullshit
  this swiss company claims to have realized a chip that thinks like a biological brain. I dont know if true or not ..
  
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  I work in (so far AI-free) knowledge engineering and my topic is more the frontend-world in computing (user interface). knowing that intelligence & memory (in bio-brains) can not be separated (building an undispensable structure) .. about a year ago I created the following sentence: 'intelligence is as intelligent as its memory permits'
  (since 'business intelligence' in computing receives so much more energy then the topic/field of organisational memory [which I suggest to be ergonomically consolidated within a 'unified information space' in the form of 'polyhierarchically organized associative net'] I tend to adress this statement as a 'beneficial credo to strategists, cio's & knowledge managers ..)
  
  however: what -effortlessly- works in the brain, can be a horror when externalized. our senses pretty much talk to our linguistic brain (esp. in info-management), which as we know is an enormously consuming machine and which loves (and hates) to get seduced -and- which can easily get confused (vulnerability). and what we do when communicating with others or when writing an essay or having a 20min speech is: reducing our knowledge to a linear digestable essense that can be grasp by others. in this sense we follow the necessity to simplify: less is more.
  
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  AI & information management
  
  imagine I was a technical engineer and a friend would ask me to build a robot that walks on 6 legs being able to carry something with the front legs. wouldn't i be a fool if I would not inspire myself studying some insects that brilliantly master these tasks? it would be the most normal thing (business as usual) to pick one for being my role model. from my point of view this is exactly what seems NOT to happen in the field of AI concerning information- & knowledge management. which I percieve as astonishingly bewildering.
  
  my question/invitation: is there anybody working in the field of AI_info-management who would like to study concepts of organisational memories in the form of associative nets? i believe to have some insects that can be beautiful role models to analyze & learn from and I would very much enjoy interacting with AI-dudes+dudettes anyway!
  
  kind regards, ron