[Inquiry] Re: Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems

[Jon Awbrey]

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INT.  Note 6

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1.3.  Model of Inquiry

I can now return to the task of analyzing and extending the
capacity for inquiry.  Any effort to enhance a human capacity
must lead off with a beginning comprehension of its nature and
must develop concurrently with an evolving understanding of the
underlying process that supports this capacity.

To extend a human capacity we need to know the critical functions 
that support that ability, and this involves us in a theory of the
practice domain.  This means that most of the language describing
the target functions will come from sources outside the areas of
systems theory and software engineering.  The first thoughts that
we take for our specifications will come from the common parlance
that everybody uses to talk about learning and reasoning, and the
rest will come from the special fields that study these abilities,
from psychology, education, logic, and the philosophy of science.
This particular hybrid of work easily fits under the broad banner
of artificial intelligence, yet I need to repeat that my principal
aim is not to build any kind of autonomous intelligence, but simply
to amplify our own capacity for inquiry.

Jon Awbrey

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