[Inquiry] Re: Inquiry: Nature Of Collaboration

[elijah wright]

> I am now already heavily dependent on Google to remember what I was
> thinking about a week, a month, a year ago -- and if there's a file on
> my disk drive that I also distributed somewhere, I can always
> "recollect" it faster with Google than I can find it again with Windows
> Find.

I think many of us suffer from this same sort of problem.  ;)  Any system
that supports inquiry in the long term MUST support search and
categorization in one way or another, yes?


> I guess I was a bit far down the road there.  And maybe trying to digest
> some raw experiences that are tougher for me to understand than mere
> canned spam, dyspepsia, and the occasional distraction.  They have spam
> filters on the Gmane site, and list memberships seem easy enough to
> control.  Right now we would be lucky to get anybody else interested in
> the task of building honest-to-Peirce inquiry software -- believe me I
> know!

:)

> I am a bit more worried about the other branch of the dynamics, where it
> turns out that the safe thing to do -- at least it always seems like the
> safe thing in the short run -- is just for everybody to go back o
> ignoring the problem that they once thought was crucial or interesting
> enough to work on.

I find this worrisome, but am not sure what to do about it. i guess this
is a Grand Problem of sorts - how to get all of the benefits with as few
of the pains as possible.


> EW: is this the same program that you sent me a copy of several years ago?
>     i can't remember, and never got around to doing anything with what you
>     sent me.
>
> Yes, I think so.  When Nexist was going strong, I was able to start
> creating a really detailed annotation and exposition of it, with
> hyper-linked comments and glosses and links that exploded the whole
> "pattern of calls".  So I will see what I can salvage of that from my
> Notepad files.

please do.

> This is where all my best ideas about integrating empirical
> (data-driven) and rational (concept-driven) models of inquiry and
> modalities of intelligent functioning in general have been tucked away.
> It's not likely that I'm going to learn another language at this time,
> but maybe I can lay it out in a way that will be portable, I hope.

just having a representation of the ideas that is unpacked enough to be
comprehensible would make a big difference, i would think.  even if that
means writing it out at great length and indexing the bits of it.

elijah