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THOUGHTSIGNS ENTERPRISES
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATIONS
16-1-25/16-7-17
PROLEGOMENON
INQUIRY, INFERENCE AND ACTION AS REFERENCED HEREIN ARE FOCUSED ON
COLLECTIVELY ELUCIDATING THE "TRUTH
WITH RELEVANCE AND VALUE (GOODNESS) TO HUMANITY" OF
THE FREETHINKING, OF ANYONEONE, WITHOUT FEAR OF FOOLISHNESS OR FEAR OF THE
REACTION OF AUTHORITY, AS WE EXPERIENCE THE REALM OF THE GREAT AND UNIVERSAL
UNCERTAINTY FACING HUMANKIND.
Yet throughout history, including the past 50+ years of
founders’ hereof, and continuing in this post 12/21/2012 era, the opposition of
the materialist/reductionist approach of orthodox science remains strong. Hence
we have watched as many of the creative minds of our time have been quieted
Galileo-like by the institutional orthodoxy of existing scientific inquiry. We
are directing our Mind Trust to the formation of a “Global Council of Elders: Knowledge Creators/Wisdom Keepers” including
both those persons still living, and those passed, via a re-creation of a virtual mind for each based on their
personal semiotic record implementing the technology introduced herein.
WE EMBRACE THIS COMMITMENT
REALIZING BOTH THE GREATNESS OF THE PAST CONTRIBUTIONS OF ORTHODOX SCIENCE AND
THE EXPECTATION OF COLLABORATING IN ITS CONTINUANCE, BUT RECOGNIZING THE
PROTECTIVE RESISTANCE OF AN ESTABLISHED CULTURE TO THE THREAT OF A
REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN MINDSET AND ITS RELATED PRAGMATIC PHILOSOPHICAL WORLD
VIEW.
“We can’t direct the wind, but we
can adjust the sails”
[Interpretation of an
alleged German Proverb]
The purpose of this conveyance is to introduce a Business
Perspective for translating 50+ years of Knowledge Technology R&D into
an exponentially growing network of commercial enterprises.
THE HUMAN CIRCUMSTANCE
As
humans know it, a defining feature of life is its constant evolution, most
times with the change being a transformation by addition or modification,
albeit frequently disruptive, but sometimes even resulting in elimination or effective
replacement. Similarly, human knowledge itself is in constant evolution,
recognizably in recent history at an exponentially increasing rate. Specifically,
cognitive science principally through applied information and communication
technology has radically changed the knowledge-access palette across humanity.
THE EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE
Human
mind, hence life in general and humankind in particular, is on the doorstep of
a co-created evolutionary extension of itself via a distinct new race of
integrated human-intelligent machine systems which will in time emerge as an embryonic form of an Autonomous Synthetic Intelligence/Mind. The
driver in this Human Mind/Artificial Intelligence research is Science based on
the Western Materialist (Systemic) World View which has amazingly brought Human
Knowledge from the discovery of fire through the development of language to the
exploration of outer space and inner nanosystems. `
THE KNOWLEDGE PROBLEM/DILEMMA/PARADOX
The
knowledge of human experience is foundationally categorizable as being either
of Things (Systems) or of InterActions (Relations). Although “common”
experience is usually of the form of a Thing (hammer) InterActing (hitting)
a Thing (nail), not all experience can authentically be represented as
such. The Nature of experience, simplistically referenced, includes obviously that
which one can point to, Things, but also that which cannot be pointed
to, Fields. A field being NoThing is
of necessity a Relational (InterActive) form – since there are only two
categories. However, since experience confirms that Fields interact with Fields,
existing Western Mathematical Science is paradoxically in deficit since it only
admits of the Relations of Things.
MULTICORELATIONAL
WHOLE FIELD SCIENCE
ThoughtSigns,
Inc. (TSI)/ThoughtSigns Enterprises (TSE) founding principals introduced a
resolution of the paradox based on a generalization of the notion of Relation. Throughout
recorded history this notion
was confined to a form in which relations were assumed to exist only
between/among systems, i.e. Systems Related to other Systems. Between
1963-1968, research work was introduced in which relations were also taken to
formally exist both as Relations between/among Systems and other Relations and
as Relations between/among Relations and other Relations, i.e. MultiCoRelationalism
was founded adding a Whole Field World View as a generalization of the
established Systems World View.
PREMISE OF A NEW MIND
Since we
come to “understand” through Mind
the experiencing of the ChaotiCosmos we live in, it is evident that
“understanding”, being a function of mind, can be enhanced by first
understanding mind. It is thus inevitable that Evolution through Human Co-Creation should forge a Synthetic Mind (SynMind) from an experientially
consistent well-formed MultiCoRelational Theory of Mind.
MULTICORELATIONAL
FOUNDATIONS OF A VIRTUAL MIND
In that the Whole as Relation is No-Thing, we adopt
the notion of Field being No-Thing as the MultiCoRelational Form for
elucidating mind. At the human mind level, Project AutoGnomicsTM intends to experientially map the
semiotic organization of the human mind, thereon to formulate a standard theory
of mind, and to technologically synthesize and applicationally engineer its
implementation (the AutoGnomeTM),
all via an open participation social network of collective intelligent
communities of inquiry, innovation and implementation focused on developing and
commercializing incremental Synthetic Intelligence (SI) components of this
SynMind. These latter then provide bit
MindClones which participate in
furthering the co-creative evolution of the SynMind and serve both as
Human-SynIntelligent partnerships (CyberGnomesTM)
and/or as autonomous Virtual Minds.
TRIRELATIONAL NATURE OF THE AUTOGNOMETM DESIGN
The
semiotics theory of AutoGnomicsTM
treats
the Observer-Sign-Object triad as a conceptual unit, where
the sign signifies an experience to a
particular observer. The triad as recorded is still a Systems Related to other Systems form, although
historical narratives suggest the creators of pragmatic semiotics may have had
non-formalized insights of a higher relational form.
It is at this point in the TransRelational ReConceptualization
of the semiotic
triad into an authentic TriRelational form in AutoGnomics that we have the
bifurcation of World Views from the establishment's exclusive Systemic form into
the inclusion of the future’s disruptive Whole Field form. Artificial Intelligence (AI) as
currently mainstreaming is of course of the Systemic form; hence we have the
welcome challenge of proving the AutoGnomicsTM distinction in practice as the preferred
technology.
It
is especially important here to emphasize the distinction between AG and AI
pragmatically with respect to its explicit value function. The dominant
realization of machine intelligence as AI treats the Observer as external to the relation between the Sign and the Object (or Experience) it signifies. In contrast, AG theory
realizes that the Observer-Sign-Object triad must be treated as a conceptual
unit, much like the Observer--as--participant in the quantum theory of physical
systems. And finally, recognizing this triad as a tri-relational
(i.e. a specific MultiCoRelational) form where
the sign signifies an experience to a particular observer, we also have the following: A sign
of truth to a given observer signifies a realization of the degree of consistency between
an expectation and the actual in that observer’s experience. The sign
of relevance of
the experience to that observer is a measure of
the degree to which it does or can effect positive personal change. And
finally, the sign of value (goodness)
of the experience to that observer is a measure of
the positive value of that change personally, but also concomitantly to the
collective whole. The Relational AutoGnomeTM is designed to maximize
these latter signs in operation thus bringing this form of SI enhancement of
human performance to an intentional all-win opportunity for society.
THE AUTOGNOMETM AS A KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPER
The AutoGnomeTM at the cognitive level of software
engineering is essentially a Knowledge
Developer. Knowledge is that attribute of Mind focused (albeit not
exclusively) on Mind’s cognitive/semantic (meaning) functionality. Knowledge
grows from Intelligence (the
syntactic form) which is born of Data/Information and matures as Wisdom (Knowledge focused through Value
in the choice of Acts). The initiating implementation of AutoGnomicsTM,
the CyberGnomeTM, as a Human-intelligent
machine (AutoGnomicTM) system (CyberMind), is a development
stage product originated via a joint venture (UniGnomics) with Unisys Corporation.
AUTOGNOMICTM COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE TECNOLOGY
The explication of the Web as a
Virtual Reality (a computer-based CyberGnomeTM Space) is
an image (sign, symbol, icon)-communication system, that is, a
MultiCoRelational Semiotic System, which as noted above is also the essence of
Mind. This provides an optimal approach to a General Theory of an Autonomous
Virtual Society (Virtuality)—this being an autonomous semiotic Community/Universe of Virtual Minds
(WebGnomes™); hence Virtuality is related to (Human) Reality through the
Virtual Reality of the Web. TSE is organizing a project team for
developing a novel multi-user platform for the Collective Intelligence of this Community of Minds based on AutoGnomeTM Technology, with initial applications to the
innovation of enterprise models for commercialization.
MISSION/STRATEGIC APPROACH
TSE’s mission is to focus on the Democratization (Sovereign Persons,
Individually and Collectively, with Open Participation Governance) of Access to
Knowledge and Capital, both individually and collectively, through this Collective
Intelligence. The technology
is to be applied in Human, Community and Enterprise Development with an initial
concentration on Education, Research, and Community and Economic development
through Entrepreneurial Technology Development & Business Applications. To
this end, Knowledge-itself is taken to be the fundamental value when Truthful, Relevant, and Collectively Good for Humanity.
TSE
has a joint business exploration and development agreement with Charles River Analytics, Inc. (CRA).
https://www.cra.com. TSE’s strategy is to begin applications projects based on one or more
selections from CRA’s abundant IP archive of
intelligent systems solutions. CRA is a
developer of custom Artificial Intelligent (AI) systems solutions to
effectively and efficiently connect human decision-makers to available data and
actors, human or machine, in supporting their mission. For example, at a
general applicability level, there is CRA’s
relational probabilistic reasoning and machine
learning technology and applications. From this software
start, TSE will effect the morphing of this into an
AutoGnomicsTM (
AG) Collective Intelligence solution for the specific chosen project.
EXEMPLARY INITIAL
PROJECTS:
TSE
is organizing an Enterprise focus with initial
applications on HealthCare, Environmental Sustainability, and Intelligent Community Development.
- With respect to HEALTHCARE, the Initial Knowledge Focus is on:
Intelligizing of Healthcare, by advancing from Crowdsourcing Knowledge to AG Collective Intelligence: Crowdsourcing Clinical Trials (CCT):
· With respect to ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY the Initial Knowledge Focus is on:
Microbial
Organism Systems Management – Microbiomes and Microbiata via MicroBioSemiotics and MicroBioAgriculture through BionTechnology -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET)
http://biontech.com and TimberFish Technologies .http://timberfishtech.com : technological solutions using highly diversified populations of microbes
and invertebrates for food and feed production, waste and wastewater treatment,
and renewable energy generation
bringing CRA/TSE multisensor-data fusion and AI/AG control systems into the
management of a Bion installation. Also an adaptation of this technology to The
Great Lakes Research Institute for Sustainability based in Buffalo, New York - on the shores of Lake Erie and the Niagara
River strait http://greatlakescentersustainability.weebly.com
-- will depend upon AG Collective Intelligence in MicroBioSemiotics
in order to detect, analyze and distinguish the “languages” of the Lake MicroBiomes.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
www.noaa.gov is the lead in this project. However, connections to the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) Worldwide,
http://www.naui.org which in association with the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund (DWCF),
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/environment formed the Green Diver Initiative (GDI)
http://www.naui.org/GreenDiver/Overview.aspx, an online community dedicated to the vitality of the aquatic world, will provide an extended population of possible citizen scientists using the
Collective
Intelligence platform.
- With respect to Intelligent Community
Development the Initial Knowledge Focus is on:
Relational ReFormation of Education in anchoring Cooperative Community
Development as the basis for enabling Indigenous Nations, Villages/Towns/Cities,
and Rural areas to become Intelligent Communities in the 21st Century.
The Education and Cooperative Organization parts come together in the following: the Intelligent with a think tank at its center. Its mission is to help communities use information and communications technology (ICT) to create inclusive prosperity, to tackle social and governance challenges and to enrich their quality of life.The TSE principals have an ongoing collaboration with leaders of three major long-term Intelligent Community Development projects including:
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, USA (2015) – Top7
Intelligent Community of 2015
Like rural cities around the world, Mitchell has been shaped by the productivity revolution in
agriculture. Over the past 80
years, automation has transformed farming from a labor-intensive business to a
capital-intensive one employing a tiny percentage of the workforce. The
six counties surrounding Mitchell have
lost one-third of their population since 1930. The most talented and
ambitious are inevitably the first to go.
NORTHLAND AVENUE
BELT LINE CORRIDOR PROJECT
City
of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown recently announced a new initiative to redevelop
the Northland Avenue “area” (Totaling approx. 500 acres), a very depressed,
partially abandoned manufacturing and residential area in the city. The Buffalo Urban Development Corporation
(“BUDC”) www.buffalourbandevelopment.com was designated as lead agency to accomplish this
redevelopment task. TSE has approached BUDC with a very aggressive and creative
plan to develop an Urban Village via the AutoGnomicTM Collective Intelligence Application.
“ALL IS RELATED”
Collaboration between TSI/TSE joined with
The AutoGnomicsTM Institute,
Inc. (TAI) http://www.autognomics.org to lead in the
Futures Global WHOLE-istic Re-culturing of Humanity via a First People’s model based first on the development of a
MultiCoRelational (Multilingual/Multicultural) Indigenous Virtual University which would then provide the innovation foundation to grow an international
Intelligent
Community Forum Smart City candidate as a notice to the World of the
birthing of a New Relational Age born of the ancient traditions of all
Indigenous People expressed in the Lakota aphorism,
“mitakuye oyasin” (we are all related).
STARTUP BUSINESS
PERSPECTIVE
Collective Intelligence Technology-based Business Perspective for two sequential 30-Month periods:
With an Investment of $2.5 million,
positive cash flow is reached in the 22rd month with Total Income of about $15
million and a cumulative Net Operating Income (NOI) of about $10 million over
30 months. Over this period the business also shows a Cash Surplus of $7.25
million after Return of Investment of $2.5 million and a Set-aside Reserve of
another $2.5 million as a potential Return on Investment. With a Net Operating
Income (NOI) annualized at the 30th month values of around $4
million/month after expenses of $750 thousand, this plan generates a business
yielding approximately $50 million of NOI annually.
Assuming that in the succeeding 30 months
(5 years total), the growth rate continues on the curve reached at the 30th
month after startup [i.e. NOI at $4 million per month], and with another $2.5
million of new investment and proportionally increased expenses, there would
then be realized an annual NOI of $0.5 Billion at the 60th month.