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Quincy Childs: Yes!
Benjamin Reinhardt: Perhaps more importantly data standards - machine readable units
Benjamin Reinhardt: Open knowledge graphs - not just ontologies but ways to build human-understandable knowledge maps. I realize that’s vague
Konrad Hinsen: I would like to suggest an additional topic: the epistemic opacity of
complex rulesets.
This includes the currently much-discussed difficulties with
interpreting and/or explaining the outcomes of machine-learning
predictions, but also the difficulty of understanding the behavior of
complex software, even if the source code is publicly available. It
even includes the pre-digital issue of complex bureaucratic rulesets
that make their outcomes incomprehensible to the ordinary citizen.
My own interest in this topic is mainly related to complex simulation
software used in scientific research. For details, see
https://f1000research.com/articles/3-101/v2. But even in everyday life, most of us have probably been given "that's what the computer says" as the only explanation for a number or a decision.
Catherine Ahearn: Thank you for pointing this out, it’s now fixed.
Konrad Hinsen: That email address is unfortunately unreachable, it seems to be redirected to a members-only mailing list.
Konrad Hinsen:
Samuel Klein: What is the locus of sustenance? How do we tie this work to institutions defined around persistence, collective sustenance of sharing knowledge? Something like “freedomdefined” for “sustained” in this sense would be worthwhile.
Samuel Klein: I love this list — Privacy fees like a subpoint of data ethics, not the heading itself
cL
c/o Laine: Hello.
I find the text above as interesting from the perspective of an alternative thinker and owner-manager of a private Publishing House (an SME-company) from Sweden. For me, it is understandable that this organization uses open, discursive collaboration in a digital space. But- with this emphasis or hypothesis that information sharing is only shared or sharing with discursive thinking, the mission statement “The Commonplace community to help further our mission toward turning ideas into collective action” the community binds eventually itself to the current paradigm of science and it’s view of Reality and Human being. Being a philosopher- social scientist by education and an alternative thinker with my undiscussed proposal for a new paradigm of science (already as a student in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Uppsala, 1974, in my 1. version (unmatured, but the grounding ideas were there) of PhD- thesis, the Mind- Soul entity uses another kind of thinking and “knowledge sharing”. Because of no interest locally and getting no financial backing to develop further the new paradigm, I did it slowly in my social science course papers, which were mostly put forward in Appendixes (in the last pro gradu- paper in Economic History in my long-term SINUS- project 1990- 2012 about the Swedish Health Care in the local county, I should have taken away these references to my own papers where developed the new paradigm- which I couldn’t and thus could not go further to ph-doctoral studies).
Concerning the current global pandemic crises which have forced the global community to the both nearly existential and economic “corner” (as a kind of negative input), I see it from a positive perspective too- IF we understand that behind the everyday behaviours and values of today, there is a common, basic paradigm of science or “ontological axiomatics”, on which we have built our pieces of knowledge, values, organizations and visions. THUS, maybe “the afterwork” of this pandemic crises opens the discussion of my new, more abstract paradigm, which includes the nowadays one as a partial only of the new, concerning the physical dimension of Reality.
I am aware that as a generalist and new in many subject areas of science which I have put forward my new, alternative ideas- intuitively- such as in Physics, Biology, Economy- I cannot put forward profound professor kind of learning and references (as put to the social-economic marginals in the society where I live in the Nordic countries). My generalist abilities are in abstraction and philosophic conceptualisation. - Concerning the Economic Theory, I have thus put forward f.e. a new Value theory- during my studies in Socialanthropology, when found that former thinkers- such as Karl Marx and Talcott Parsons were interested in the perspective of the Society as a kind of totality; thus my interest to unite the axiomatic Economic Theory with the science of Economic Anthropology which does research how people actually “economics” by f.e. social practices. In the same studies, I lifted the abstraction level of the famous social anthropologists, R.A. Rappaport, in his book “Pigs for the Ancestors” to the many-dimensional view of the Ecology theory on the ground of his research findings of the Nature people in the New Guinea.
As for the current pandemic crises, IF the new paradigm had been discussed, developed further, collectively in the world, we could have today much better tools to handle this crisis: new Economy theory, new solidarity thinking, based on the new sciences, with new views of Human being and thus on new values and behaviours- those which people worldwide now show intuitively in many cases. THUS the pandemic crises of Covid19 has lifted up to the “surface level of the knowledge” those inputs which were concealed below- “underwater”, put there by the current paradigm and it’s learned thinkers, politicians, elites. HOW long the Covid19 works can possibly depend now on us- are we opening to the perspective that maybe we and thus our knowledges today- are only at the beginning on the lift to a new cultural evolutionary level, and that could possibly be done better with the new, more abstract paradigm. - Thank you for being able to discuss here and put forward my thoughts.
Lasse T Laine, philosopher- social scientist, entrepreneur, writer, Uppsala, Sweden.
My e-books (mostly in Swedish, two factual- science kind in English) at my preliminary website
https://vidorg.wordpress.com and
https://foerlagetlassetlaine.jimdofree.com/
