From: portal!cup.portal.com!PLai@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Sources of the concept of "information as space"?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 99 01:04:33 PST



> early works of "information as space"

I basic view gibsons stuff has trash - perhaps amuzing trash - but trivial
drulings of the great works on the subject.  The primary work on all
cybernetic spaces was done by Francis Bacon in 1590 - worked called 
"Novum Organum" or New Organ (brain).  It reviews spatial associative 
networks and how they form high level concepts - the book thrashes
many of our current approaches and is commonly ignored.

A second set of "information space" type papers flow out of more advanced
approaches to general relativity - i.e. pre-geometry logic as a basis for
space time.  In all these works there is not so much a viewpoint as
how do we show "information" in a spatial context, but more that "space"
is part of a logical structure / information.  Thus space is formed out
of logical structures.

>From an artifical inteligence viewpoint ( I personally view humans as 
artificially inteligent ) the question is how do you represent dynamic
informatianal/inteligence structures in a 3-D format.  Also how does
the ai view its internal structures spatially and modify them - which
is a slightly recursive viewpoint.

There real trick then, is not so much in how do you represent information,
but how do you represent inteligence.   I personally feel you need
to represent spatially the basic structure of informational transfer,
blocking, and chunking (catagorizing into groups).

                              PLai